
REPORT 



NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 



LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION 



AT 



ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, 1904 



TO 



His Excellency, JOHN H. MICKEY, Governor of Nebraska 



Omaha, January 2, 1905 



REPORT 



OF THE 



NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 



TO THE 



LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION 



ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, 1904 



His Excellency. JOHN H. MICKEY, Governor of Nebraska 



Omaha, January 2, 190^ 



By tr*rt«*»fi 

A UG 25 ISO* 



Omaha, Nebraska, January 4, 1905. 
To His Excellency John H. Mickey, Governor of Nebraska, Lin- 
coln, Nebraska. 
Sir : We hand yon herewith report of the Nebraska State 
Commission, appointed by your Excellency, as provided by 
the act of the legislature at its twenty-eighth session, pro- 
viding for the appointment and defining the duties of the Com- 
mission to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. 
Respectfully submij^ed.. Jij* 

(Signed) G. W. Wattles, President. 

Peter Jansen, Vice-President. 
Matt Miller, Treasurer. 





GURDON W. WATTLES, Omaha, 
President. 



PETER JANSEN, Jansen, 
Vice-President. 





MATT MILLER, David City, 
Treasurer. 



H. G. SHEDD, Lincoln 
Secretary. 



REPORT 



To His Excellency John H. Mickey, Governor of Nebraska: 

Pursuant to the provisions of House Roll No. 231 creating 
and denning the duties of the Nebraska Commission to the 
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, we have the honor to. report 
the acts of the said commission since its organization, as 
follows : 

ORGANIZATION OF COMMISSION. 

Gurdon W. Wattles, of Omaha, Charles H. Morrill, of Lin- 
coln, and Judge Matt Miller, of David City, having been duly 
appointed by your Excellency as commissioners, met at your 
office for the first time on April 25, 1903, and having received 
their certificates of such appointment under the act creating 
the commission, proceeded to the organization of said commis- 
sion, as follows: Gurdon W. Wattles, president; Charles H. 
Morrill, vice-president and treasurer, and Judge Matt Miller, 
secretary. 

Soon after its organization the commission established head- 
quarters in Omaha, and H. G. Shedd, of Lincoln, was appointed 
assistant secretary. This organization continued until Sep- 
tember 10, 1903, when, owing to ill health and press of private 
duties, Charles H. Morrill resigned from the commission, and 
Peter Jansen, of Jansen, was appointed by your Excellency in 
his stead. The commission was then reorganized as follows : 
Gurdon W. Wattles, president; Peter Jansen, vice-president, 
and Judge Matt Miller, treasurer. Upon his election as treas- 
urer, Mr. Miller resigned his office as secretary and H. G. 
Shedd was appointed secretary to fill the vacancy created. 

Soon after its first appointment the commission began its 
work by the creation of various departments of exhibits and 
the appointment of competent superintendents to take charge 
of the same. A number of the best known leaders in exposition 



6 REPORT OF NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

work in Nebraska early offered their services to the commis- 
sion without compensation other than their actual expenses, 
and from these James Walsh, of Benson, was chosen as super- 
intendent of the agricultural exhibit; E. M. Pollard, of Ne- 
hawka, superintendent of the horticultural exhibit; S. C. Bas- 
sett. of Gibbon, as superintendent of the dairy exhibit; Prof. 
E. H. Barbour, of the State University at Lincoln, as superin- 
tendent of the educational and mineral exhibits ; O. P. Hender 
shot, of Hebron, as superintendent of the live stock exhibit; 
and T. L. Xorval. of Seward, as superintendent of the poultry 
exhibit. In each of these cases the choice has proven a wise 
one. each superintendent having rendered the most efficient 
service to the state since his appointment, by his constant care 
and unending endeavors to make his exhibit interesting and 
attractive. E, G. Hills, of Benson, and Win. James of Dor 
Chester, as assistant superintendents of agriculture, Mr. and 
Mrs. J. H. Hadkinson of Omaha, assistant superintendents of 
horticulture. Prof. A. L. Haecker, of the State University at 
Lincoln, and L. D. Stilson, of York, as assistant superintend- 
ents of the dairy exhibit, and Miss Edith L. Webster, of Lin- 
coln, as assistant superintendent of the education and mineral 
exhibits, were employed and rendered valuable service in con- 
nection with their various exhibits. 

COLLECTION AND INSTALLATION. 

The personnel of the various departments having been 
chosen, tentative appropriations to the several departments 
were made by the commission as follows : 

Agricultural exhibit $7,500 00 

Horticultural exhibit 5,000 00 

Educational exhibit, including exhibit in Depart- 
ment of Mines and special exhibit of class from the 

State School for the Deaf and Dumb 4,250 00 

Spectacular effects 7,200 00 

Dairy exhibit 1,300 00 

Live stock exhibit 2,100 00 

Poultry exhibit 500 00 




JAMES WALSH, Ben-son, 
Superintendent of Agricultural Exhibit. 



ERNEST M. POEEARD, Nehawka, 
Superintendent of Horticultural Exhibit. 





ERWIN H. BARBOUR, Eincoln, 
Superintendent of Educational and Mineral Exhibit. 



S. C. BASSET, Gibbon, 
Superintendent of Dairy Exhibit. 




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O. P. HENDERSHOT, Hebron, 
Superintendent of Eive Stock Exhibit 



T. E. NORVAE, Seward, 
Superintendent of Poultry Exhibit. 



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This having been done, the commission and the various heads 
of departments lost no time in gathering and installing those 
products which best illustrated the wonderful resources and 
industries of Nebraska. 

Agriculture. — In agriculture premiums were at once set 
aside for the best collections of sheaf grains and grasses, by 
which means the finest samples of sheaf grain in the state and 
an entire car-load of native grasses, numbering over 169 va- 
rieties, were procured. Seven hundred and fifty dollars were 
also set aside to be added to the premium list of the corn show 
of the Nebraska Improved Corn Growers' Association at Lin- 
coln. At this corn show, as well as at numerous local shows of 
a similar nature, and also through the efforts of the special 
agents who visited every part of Nebraska, over 1,000 bushels 
of Nebraska's finest corn, including all varieties of field, sweet, 
flint and pop-corn, were collected and stored in Lincoln and 
Omaha. At the state fair of 1903, and at numerous county 
fairs, notably that of the Douglas County Agricultural Society, 
large quantities of high grade grains and corn were also 
secured for use at St. Louis. Two warehouses were rented in 
Omaha, where a corps of trained experts under the supervision 
of Superintendent Walsh prepared the grains and grasses for 
exhibit and decorative purposes when the exposition should 
open. Much of the beauty of the Nebraska agricultural instal- 
lation at the fair was due to the minute and careful attention 
paid to the preparation of the sheaf grain and grasses so that 
they uniformly presented a bright and attractive appearance 
during the entire season, and won the admiration of thousands 
of visitors. 

During the holidays in 1903, the commission arranged with 
the State University to mount the steer "Challenger," the ani- 
mal which took the world's championship prize for a fat grade 
steer at the International Live Stock Show at Chicago the 
previous December, and to make a display of the specimen in 
its agricultural exhibit. 

Nearly 8,000 feet of floor space was set aside for Nebraska's 



8 REPORT OF NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

agricultural exhibit, and the installation of this material be- 
gan early in the year. The commission having decided to erect 
no state building, but to establish its headquarters in connec- 
tion with its agricultural exhibit, the installation of these agri- 
cultural products was made to add beauty to the handsome 
pavilion erected upon the space assigned to the state. Hundreds 
of sheaves of small grains of all varieties, and countless bundles 
of grasses, were placed about this pavillion in the most attrac- 
tive form, while the entire decoration of artistic garlands and 
wreaths was composed of grasses and other products. 

Opposite the Nebraska pavilion, in the central space set aside 
by the exposition authorities for special exhibits of the leading- 
products of the United States, Nebraska made its corn display. 
A huge tower, completely covered with ears of corn and sur- 
mounted by a great ball and eagle, was erected. Four large 
pyramids of solid corn flanked the tower, and the entire space 
was enclosed with long tables where was shown the very best 
corn of the state. Here over eighty-two varieties of corn were 
shown, Nebraska exhibiting more distinct varieties of corn 
than all other corn states showing at the exposition. Here also 
was shown a collection of twenty-six bottles of products from 
corn. 

The agricultural display of sheaf grains of all varieties, of 
seeds, of vegetables, and of honey, was one of the largest and 
finest exhibits in the entire Agricultural building. Not only 
the great number of prizes won upon these exhibits, but the 
ever increasing interest manifested by the public to the very 
close of the exposition, attest the wonderful display made in 
this exhibit of Nebraska's great agricultural resources. 

« Dairy. — The state's dairy exhibit was also located in the 
Agricultural building. It consisted of the usual space as- 
signed each state in the refrigeration section devoted entirely 
to the greatest display of butter and cheese ever made in the 
world. Nebraska's display in reality consisted of two exhibits 
installed at different times during the season. The first was 
strictlv a commercial exhibit wherein was shown the wonderful 



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growth and development of the dairy industry of Nebraska 
during the last five years. A map showing the position of the 
20,000 hand separators in the state that made a part of this 
exhibit attracted great attention. Later in the season a cornu 
copia modeled of butter, from which flowed a stream of yellow 
butter, was substituted, with the legend "Nebraska's liquid 
gold, $20,000,000.00 annually." 

In the installation of this dairy exhibit the Nebraska com- 
mission was assisted by the payment of $500 on the part of the 
Beatrice Creamery Company of Lincoln, the Hygeia Creamery 
Company of Omaha, and the Fairmont Creamery Company of 
Fairmont. This money was subscribed with the understanding 
that it should be used only to pay the cost of refrigeration dur- 
ing the season. 

Horticulture. — Notwithstanding the extremely poor fruit 
crop in Nebraska in 1903, Superintendent Pollard succeeded 
in gathering a fine collection of apples, peaches and other 
fruits, which were at once shipped to St. Louis and placed 
in cold storage waiting the opening of the exposition. The 
amount of fruit thus collected was so large that it easily filled 
Nebraska's assigned space in the Palace of Horticulture during 
all the summer and until the apple crop of 1904 could be picked 
and its best specimens shipped to the exhibit. During the sum- 
mer of 1904 a continuous exhibit of Nebraska grown small 
fruits was made upon the tables. The number of plates shown 
daily throughout the season ran from 300 to 400. The fruit as 
rapidly as placed upon the tables was judged by the "working- 
jury" of the exposition, with the result that a large number of 
high awards were received, and in the total scoring on the fruit 
Nebraska, in proportion to the quantity shown, ranked highest 
of all states except Colorado. 

The installation of the horticultural exhibit was novel and 
attractive. The tables were surrounded by a rustic fence and 
at one side was a rustic bower with a large tree through which 
an old grapevine with huge clusters of grapes, twined itself. 
This bower, together with the magnificent display of Nebraska 



10 REPORT OF NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

fruit, made the Nebraska space the central meeting point for 
thousands of visitors to the horticultural building. 

Great assistance was rendered the commission and the super- 
intendent of the horticultural exhibit by the interest shown on 
the part of the members of the State Horticultural Society, 
nearly all of whom sent their best fruit for exhibition on the 
Nebraska tables. A number of these gentlemen spent from one 
to two weeks at the exhibit in the interest of Nebraska at a 
small compensation. During the season hundreds of bushels of 
apples were given away. This was notably so upon Apple Day 
and Nebraska Day. when the fruit was most eagerly sought by 
World's Fair visitors. 

Educational. — The preparation of the educational exhibit 
began early in the summer of 1903. and became especially 
active after the University and schools of the state had opened 
in the following September. Circulars and letters were sent 
to all of the schools and colleges, with the result that the edu- 
cational exhibit when installed at St. Louis made a complete 
showing of the work of the Nebraska schools in all branches 
from the kindergarten through the colleges and the University. 
It included complete exhibits of the state institutions of learn- 
ing, such as the State Normal at Peru, the State School for 
the Deaf and Dumb at Omaha, and the State School for the 
Blind at Nebraska City. Prof. A. E. Pope, of the State Deaf 
and Dumb School, having been appointed superintendent of 
social science in the exposition educational department, con- 
ceived the idea of illustrating the methods of teaching deaf 
and dumb children by means of a live exhibit, and through 
his efforts the State School for Deaf and Dumb at Omaha was 
induced to send a class of students to the exposition for this 
purpose. The school paid one-half of the expense and the com- 
mission the remainder. This exhibit proved a great attraction. 
An unique exhibit was that of the traveling library depart- 
ment of the State Library. The State Historical Society also 
contributed a splendid exhibit of forty cases of relics from the 
state of Nebraska and the Missouri Vallev. These relics illus- 



TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 11 

trated the history of the state from the earliest times of the 
Indian through the Spanish explorations and the territorial 
settlement of the state, to the glorious development of the 
present time. Another striking exhibit was that showing the 
work of the Federation of Women's Clubs in the state, which 
attracted great attention from the visitors to the Educational 
Palace. Throughout the educational exhibit the fact that Ne- 
braska, ranks first in the small percentage of illiteracy was 
constantly emphasized. The Nebraska space in the Educa- 
tional Palace was altogether too small for the immense amount 
of material shown, but Prof. Barbour's installation brought 
innumerable visitors from much larger and more expensive 
exhibits to the Nebraska educational booth. This booth itself 
was a remarkably beautiful structure, consisting of a hand- 
some facade built on classic lines, with the exhibits grouped 
within on long, olive-hued tables. 

Mineral. — Perhaps in no other way did Nebraska so astonish 
the world as by installing an exihibit in the Department of 
Mines and Metallurgy. Notwithstanding the fact that there 
is not a mine in the state in the strict sense of the word, and 
that Nebraska is generally looked upon as a purely agricul- 
tural community, the commission installed an unusually at- 
tractive exhibit shoAving the best samples of Nebraska's build- 
ing stones, bricks, cements and similar products. A complete 
collection of soils from different parts of the state was shown. 
Oases of fossils from the State Museum, specimens from the 
geological department of the University, and typical photo- 
graphs of Nebraska, added attractiveness. A number of glass 
globes in this mineral exhibit, containing yellow corn, bore the 
inscription "The Gold of Nebraska." 

Live Stock and Poultry. — The commission early decided to 
make a proper exhibit of Nebraska's great live stock and poul- 
try interests at the exposition live stock and poultry shows 
held during the autumn of 1904. Meetings were held with the 
officers and representatives of the Nebraska State Live Stock 



12 REPORT OF NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

Association and the Nebraska State Poultry Association look- 
ing to such an exhibit, with the result that ample funds were 
set aside and the commission agreed to transport from Ne- 
braska to St. Louis and return all the live stock and poultry 
winning first and second prizes at the state fair of 1904. This 
plan met with the hearty approval of the officers of these as- 
sociations, and the leading stockmen and poultry raisers of the 
state, inasmuch as it was readily seen that by this plan the 
finest and most representative live stock and poultry in the 
state would be entered at the exposition stock shows. Under 
the direction of O. P. Hendershot, superintendent of live stock, 
and T. L. Norval, superintendent of poultry, several car- 
loads of stock and poultry were shipped to St. Louis immed- 
iately after the state fair, and entered for premiums. All of 
these exhibitors were uniformly successful, winning many 
prizes. This was particularly true in the classes devoted to 
swine, sheep and poultry. The officers of the Poultry Associa- 
tion state that never before were Nebraska exhibits so success- 
ful in competing with the birds of eastern and well-known 
breeders. 

MOVING PICTURE EXHIBITIONS. 

In addition to the above exhibits in the regular departments 
of the exposition, the Nebraska Commission also erected and 
maintained a small theatre in the Nebraska pavilion, for the 
purpose of illustrating the daily life of the principal business 
enterprises of the state. The unique idea of doing this by mov- 
ing pictures and stereopticon views was hit upon by the presi 
dent of the commission. This plan was early adopted by the 
commission, and during all of the summer of 1903 and in the 
spring of 1904 an expert photographer, under the direction of 
the secretary of the commission and the various superintend- 
ents, was engaged in taking suitable pictures for this exhibi- 
tion. Nearly ten thousand feet of moving picture film was 
secured, this film illustrating in its entirety almost every phase 
of agricultural and industrial life in the state. These pictures 
were taken in all parts of Nebraska, so as to present to the 



TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 13 

public a complete picture of the life, the business, and the 
general conditions in the state. When finally grouped for ex- 
hibition purposes, these moving pictures numbered nine com- 
plete series. One of these illustrated the scenes common to 
early spring planting and the harvest in early summer. An- 
other showed the farm life in times of haying, orcharding, and 
corn picking. One was devoted to dairying, illustrating the 
modern commercial dairy industry in Nebraska by the milking 
of cows, the separating, shipping and handling of cream in 
the central creameries. Other series illustrated the poultry, 
sheep and swine industries, the raising of alfalfa, and the culti- 
vation and marketing of sugar beets, with the processes of ex- 
tracting the sugar from the same. A series devoted to the live 
stock showed the industry through all its familiar phases from 
the feed lot to the packing house. Another pictured the open 
life of the range, presenting scenes illustrating the rounding 
up and branding of cattle, and the lassoing and riding of un- 
broken western ponies. A panorama made from a moving train 
passing through 150 miles of the best farm land in Nebraska 
was shown, as well as a panorama taken from a street-car 
showing a principal street in Omaha. Similar panoramas de- 
picting familiar scenes at the State University, the State Fair 
and the Ak-sar-ben festivities in Omaha were given. 

One of the most attractive moving pictures shown was that of 
the late President William McKinley, at the Trans-Mississippi 
Exposition in Omaha. The film of this picture, which is one 
of the very few moving pictures of the late president in ex- 
istence, was kindly loaned to the Nebraska Commission by 
Frank A. Einehart, of Omaha. Hundreds of colored stereopti- 
con views of fine farm houses and typical farm scenes, and the 
best municipal and public buildings of the state, rounded out 
this exhibition. Many of these views were furnished by the 
railroads of the state, the Nebraska Farmer and the Ttoen- 
tieth Century Farmer. With this immense amount of illus- 
trative material, it was possible to give an entire change of 
program at each of the twelve to fifteen shows given daily in 



11 REPORT OF NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

the Nebraska theatre. Before the opening of the exposition, 
the commission planned to give two shows a day. especially 
during the early part of the exposition, but the very first ex- 
hibition demonstrated the popularity of Nebraska's unique 
method of advertising the state with the visiting public, so 
that it was soon necessary to make the exhibitions and the ac- 
companying lectures a regular hourly feature. Lecturers were 
engaged from among the advanced University students and the 
young instructors of that institution, each lecturer being 
secured from one to two months. The young men who per- 
formed this service for the commission were A. S. Reasoner, of 
Shelton; Frank L. Rain, of Fairbury; E. H. Clark, George C. 
Shedd, W. C. Mercer and Buell Chessington. all of Lincoln. 
The lectures given by these young men told in a brief and en- 
tertaining way the story of Nebraska's rapid development and 
growth, and the wonderful resources it possesses for the fu- 
ture. Between the exhibitions the lecturers mingled with the 
spectators explaining the pictures more in detail, and in every 
way promoting the interest of the visiting public. 

Owing to the increased demand for the pictures and the 
rapidly growing attendance at the Nebraska pavilion, the mov- 
ing picture exhibition in the theatre grew from an hourly fea- 
ture to an almost continuous performance. From July to the 
end of the exposition half hourly shows were given from 10 
to 6 o'clock, and early in the autumn the crowds grew to such 
proportions that the commission enlarged the theatre by re- 
moving a portion of the inner corridor so as to accommodate at 
least 100 more persons at each exhibition. The following table 
tells the story of the remarkable attendance at the Nebraska 
theatre during the exposition season : 



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Month. xr T */ a attendance at 

No. shows, attendance. 



rp , i r P , Average 

attendance 
each exhibition. 

May and June , 260 43,500 167 

July 319 52,412 162 

August 336 53,859 160 

September 300 63,180 220 

October 323 73,615 228 

November 324 70,305 217 



1.862 356,871 192 

It must be remembered that these figures represent the 
actual number of persons who witnessed the exhibitions* in a 
little theatre with a seating capacity of 100 and standing room 
for 100 more. There were thousands of persons who witnessed 
the pictures for a few minutes from the doorways, and then 
passed on because they could not enter the theatre for the 
crowd, while there were other thousands who visited the Ne- 
braska pavilion during the intervals that the pictures were not 
being thrown upon the screen. Without hesitancy, it can be 
slated on a conservative estimate that at least one million 
people visited the Nebraska pavilion during the exposition 
season, over a third of whom actually witnessed a series of 
these moving pictures, and a second third of whom witnessed 
some portion of a complete series. 

The record of attendance which was kept throughout these 
moving picture exhibitions shows some remarkable facts in 
addition to those stated above. It naturally shows that the 
greatest crowds were entertained on the national and other 
holidays at the fair. The attendance on July 4, for instance, 
was 2,615; on September 5, Labor Day, 2,385; on September 
25, Agricultural Day, 2,535 ; on November 24, Thanksgiving 
Day, 3,440; and on September 15, St. Louis Day, reached the 
tremendous total of 8,930. During the entire season, when 
nearly 2,000 exhibitions were given, the performances were 
hindered by unavoidable causes but nine different times. On 
two occasions the electric current was cut off by the exposi- 



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tion. On four occasions the moving picture apparatus broke: 
on one day the exhibit was closed to be judged by the jury of 
awards; on another day the performances were hindered for 
two hours by the enlarging of the theatre, and on President's 
Day, November 26. the entire building was cleared in the after- 
noon during the official visit of the president of the United 
States. On this afternoon, however, one exhibition was given 
at which the president of the United States stopped a brief 
moment. The records also show that the Nebraska theatre 
was also visited by scores of notable persons, including the 
leading exposition officials, the various commissioners from 
foreign governments to the exposition, the secretary of the 
navy, prominent newspaper men of the world during the In- 
ternational Press Parliament, noted scientists and men of 
letters during the International Congress of Arts and Sciences, 
and thousands of visitors from all parts of the world. Numer- 
ous special exhibitions were given for various organizations at 
the exposition and from Nebraska, the National Bee Keepers- 
Association and other national organizations, and for bodies 
of natives from the Philippine reservation, the Indian reserva- 
tion, and the anthropological exhibit. The courtesy of the 
Nebraska theatre was extended to various organizations in 
the Agricultural building, notably the Agricultural Club, which 
held its weekly meetings there during the entire season; also 
to numerous men of prominence connected with the various 
exhibits at the exposition, for special courses of lectures along 
educational and scientific lines. In a word, it may be said 
that no other state's exhibit at the exposition attracted so much 
attention as this Nebraska theatre and its moving pictures. 
The exposition management, at the very outset, recognized the 
merit of this exhibit by advertising the Nebraska biograph 
pictures on their official daily program as one of the features of 
the exposition. The newspapers of St. Louis early favored it 
with their generous approval, and before the summer was well 
advanced many of the leading magazines of the country such 
as the Cosmopolitan Magazine, the World's Work, and Print- 



TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 17 

ers' Ink, favorably commented on this entertainment part of 
the Nebraska exhibit. That the moving picture exhibition, as 
well as the other features of the Nebraska exhibit, have met 
with the approval of the great mass of visitors from Nebraska 
is attested by the scores of complimentary letters that have 
been received and are now in the commission's files. In this 
connection it may further be said that this moving picture 
feature has established a new idea in the matter of advertising 
a state's resources and advancement at an exposition. Shortly 
after the Nebraska moving pictures were installed and pre- 
sented to the public, the idea was copied by other states and 
by various large manufacturing corporations and put into ex- 
ecution at the exposition. None, however, were so popular as 
Nebraska's, which enjoyed the exclusive privilege in the Agri- 
cultural Palace. Moving picture experts also declare that the 
Nebraska pictures have created a demand of a new kind for 
work in their line. Since the Nebraska Commission began 
showing its pictures, an entirely new idea has been evolved. 
The moving picture, from a purely entertaining feature, has 
advanced into the educational and scientific field. Officials 
from various states and the government of the T T nited States, 
as well as representatives from the Japanese, Austrian, Belgian 
and other governments, visited the Nebraska exhibitions with a 
view of introducing a similar use of the moving picture ma- 
chine into the agricultural departments of their countries. A 
number of these representatives of foreign countries have made 
full reports of Nebraska's successful method to their govern 
ments. 

AWARDS AND PRIZES. 

That the state of Nebraska should be highly successful in 
winning many premiums and prizes on the general installation 
of its exhibits as described above, was to be expected, but that 
a grand total of over 500 medals and prizes upon collective and 
individual exhibits should be awarded to the state, demon- 
strates fully the high rank taken by Nebraska at the recent 
Exposition. These awards by departments are given below : 



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Grand Grand 

Department. Prize. Gold. Silver. Bronze. Total. Total. 

General 2 . . . . . . 2 

Agriculture : 

Grains 6 94 86 106 292 

Vegetables 3 17 1 21 

Honey . . 6 . . 6 

Dairy 1 . . . . 1 

Horticulture 1 10 21 17 49 

Floriculture '. . . 1 1 . . 2 

Education 1 9 4 5 19 

Mining .. 1 2 3 

Individuals . . ' 5 . . . . 5 



Totals 




10 




129 


130 


131 




400 


400 


Live stock . . 

Poultry 

Specials . 


Premiums- 


-1st. 
10 

1 


2d. 

12 

3 


3d. 
21 

7 


4th. 

11 

4 


6th 
5th. to 10th 

15 
3 9 


. Total. 
69 

27 
8 








11 


15 


28 


15 


18 


9 


104 


104 


Grand total 
















504 



Of the above, a grand prize was awarded to the Nebraska 
pavilion, and a grand prize to the moving picture exhibition. 
The general agricultural installation received a grand prize, 
and grand prizes were awarded in the agricultural department 
to the state's collective exhibit of corn, collective exhibit of 
sheaf and threshed grains, collective exhibit of wild and tamo 
grasses and forage crops, and a collective exhibit of seeds. 
Ninety-four gold medals were awarded for agricultural ex- 
hibits, among them being a gold medal to the state of Nebraska 
for its general exhibit of four pyramids of corn; a gold medal 
to the state for thirty-seven jars of shelled field and sugar corn ; 
one to the State University for a collective exhibit of 100 jars 
of threshed grains and seeds; to the State University for Reed's 
yellow corn; to Johnson county for a collective exhibit of corn; 
to the Kearney Business Men's Association for a fine displa}' 
of alfalfa. Individuals received gold medals on from one to 
four exhibits, and in some cases as high as six and eight. 
Ninety-two silver medals were received in the agricultural 
department, among which was a silver medal to the state for its 
exhibit of honey. One hundred and six bronze medals were 
awarded to individuals exhibiting in this department. Of these 



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awards, eighty-five went to corn, 167 to sheaf and threshed 
grains, eleven to grasses and forage crops, twenty-seven to 
seeds, six to honey, and three to general exhibit. The awards 
in corn covered all varieties, including sweet, field, flint, pop, 
and bine and white flour corn. Sixteen awards were made 
upon pop-corn alone, a total, it is believed, greater than that 
of any other state upon the same variety. The highest award 
in the department upon sweet corn was likewise made to 
Nebraska. The exhibits in grains included all the standard 
varieties of oats, rye, millet, barley, and timothy, both in sheaf 
and in grain ; while there were awards made upon fine samples 
of speltz, milo maize, buckwheat and sorghum. In vegetables, 
Nebraska received a gold medal for its collective exhibit, and 
the Douglas County Agricultural Society a silver medal. The 
entire twenty-one entries in vegetables received awards, two 
being gold medals, eighteen silver medals, and one bronze. 
While no authorized announcement is as yet obtainable, as far 
as can be ascertained from careful inquiry, Nebraska received 
more awards in the agricultural department than any other 
state exhibiting. 

In the dairy department the state received a gold medal for 
its collective exhibit. No individual awards were made, as 
the dairy exhibit was in cold storage and represented only the 
wonderful growth of the dairy industry in Nebraska during the 
last few years. 

In horticulture, a grand prize was awarded the Nebraska 
exhibit. Cass, Lancaster and Nemaha counties received gold 
medals on collective exhibits of fruit, while Pawnee, Lincoln, 
Richardson, Saline, Valley and Washington counties received 
silver medals, and Douglas county a bronze medal. During the 
summer there were forty-nine entries of various kinds of fruit 
from individual growers in the state. Eleven of these exhibi- 
tors showed collective exhibits of different kinds of fruit, while 
there were eleven entries of apples alone. The other entries 
included apricots, plums, cherries, grapes, peaches, strawber- 
ries, blackberries and raspberries. The high awards received 



2(1 REPORT OF NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

by all of* These various exhibits demonstrates the tine quality 
of fruit on exhibition during all the summer, which to so 
marked a degree showed to the world Nebraska's fruit raising 
industry. In floriculture, a section of the same department, a 
gold medal and a silver medal were received by individual ex- 
hibitors of flowers, this being the first time that the state of 
Nebraska was ever awarded premiums in floriculture at uni- 
versal expositions. 

In the department of education, Nebraska received one grand 
prize, nine gold medals, four silver medals and five bronze 
medals. Inasmuch as each medal was awarded to a collective 
exhibit, this number shows a much larger representation than 
would appear on the face. For instance, a gold medal was 
'awarded to the State Federation of Women's Clubs, which ex- 
hibit contained the work of hundreds of individuals. In the 
same manner gold medals were awarded to the State Univers- 
ity, the State School for the Deaf, the State School for the 
Blind, and to various boards of education. Few medals were 
awarded in this department to individual exhibitors. 

In the department of mines and metallurgy, where Nebraska 
for the first time in its history made an exhibit of soils and 
building materials, a silver medal Avas awarded to the state for 
its collective exhibit: a bronze medal to the state upon its soils 
and minerals shown, and to the State University upon a collec- 
tion of photographs illustrating Nebraska's mineral resources. 

In live stock and poultry. Nebraska captured many pre- 
miums. Although the entries in horses and cattle were not 
large, in the classes pertaining to swine and sheep the win- 
nings were many. In poultry the State made an unusually 
strong showing, individual exhibitors Avinning more premiums 
in proportion to number of birds entered and shown, than ex- 
hibitors from any other state in the Union. In some classes of 
poultry Nebraska exhibitors defeated the originators of the 
variety. One Nebraska exhibitor, after competing with all 
l he leading eastern exhibitors, including at least one million- 
aire, won ribbons in every class but one — a distinction accorded 



TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 21 

but one other exhibitor — and received more prizes than any of 
his competitors. 

The state was also honored by more special awards to the 
persons in charge than any other state in proportion to the 
exhibits made, special awards of gold medals being given to 
the various superintendents and assistant superintendents in 
charge, as well as to the operator of the moving pictures in the 
Nebraska theatre. A large number of awards were also made 
to numerous individual exhibitors as collaborators in the pre- 
paration of the collective county and state exhibits. A com- 
plete list of the awards by departments is given at the end of 
this report. 

NO STATE BUILDING NEBPvASKA PAVILION. 

The success of the moving picture exhibitions and the ex- 
hibits in the various departments as outlined above has demon- 
strated clearly to the members of the commission, the wisdom 
of not attempting to erect and maintain a state building upon 
the exposition grounds with the limited means at the commis- 
sion's disposal. Other western states having appropriations of 
1100,000 to |200,000, erected state buildings of magnitude and 
beauty, and any building that Nebraska could have erected 
would have compared unfavorably with those of surrounding 
states. In view of this fact, and the further belief that the 
Nebraska appropriation was made more for advertising in the 
best possible manner the resources of the state, than for the 
purpose of affording entertainment and social features such 
as a state building would necessitate, the commission almost 
immediately after its organization decided that it would be 
unwise to attempt the construction and maintenance of such 
a state building. A plan was devised for establishing head- 
quarters in connection with the state's agricultural exhibit in 
the Agricultural Building, and after consultation with F. 
W. Taylor, chief of the Agricultural Department, with other 
exposition officials, with your Excellency, and with other lead 
ing persons in the state, this was done. A large space on the 



22 REPORT OF NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

center aisle of the Palace of Agriculture was assigned to Ne- 
braska, and here a state pavilion, 98x52 feet in extent, was 
erected. The plans for this pavilion were furnished by Archi- 
tect Thomas R. Kimball, of Omaha, and the beauty and utility 
of his design added much to the general attractiveness of the 
exhibit. These plans were furnished by him gratuitously, in so 
far as his work was concerned, the commission only paying the 
actual cost of the work of his employees. Not only was the 
principal agricultural exhibit installed in this pavilion and the 
Nebraska theatre erected, but a large reception room was pro- 
vided as a meeting place for Nebraskans, where mail could.be 
received, the leading Nebraska journals found, and facilities 
for letter writing and checking parcels obtained. Cloak rooms 
and lavatories were provided, and in every way conveniences 
afforded for the comfort of visiting Nebraskans. A register of 
Nebraskans visiting the pavilion was kept throughout the ex- 
position, which has been turned over to the State Historical 
Society, to be placed with similar registers from other ex- 
positions where Nebraska has been represented. Here, too, the 
headquarters of the Nebraska Commission were established, in 
charge of the secretary. As the summer advanced Mrs. Mary 
L. Eastman, of Omaha, was appointed as hostess, and remained 
until the close of the exposition to greet visiting Nebraskans 
and make them feel at home. 

While to many Nebraskans there was a feeling of disappoint- 
ment, before visiting the exposition, that Nebraska had no 
state building for social gatherings and entertainment fea- 
tures, this feeling gave way to one of approval of the commis- 
sion's plans after these Nebraskans had visited the exposition, 
discovered the homelike and social atmosphere pervading the 
Nebraska pavilion, and witnessed the earnest endeavors of the 
commission to further Nebraska's opportunities in the best pos- 
sible manner. The commission has in its files several hundred 
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TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 2S 

tion. From these letters the commission believes that it is the 
consensus of opinion, among Nebraskans at least, that the 
state commission, in view of its limited resources, acted wisely 
in not attempting to erect and maintain a state building, and 
that its moving picture exhibition and its regular exhibits, 
advertised the state in a manner that no state building could 
have done. 

ADVERTISING MATERIAL. 

At the state pavilion in the agricultural building, as well as 
at all the Nebraska exhibits in other exhibit palaces, a large 
amount of advertising matter in convenient form, giving data 
regarding the wealth, resources and advantages of the state, 
was provided. One hundred thousand small vest-pocket mem- 
orandum books containing striking statistics in regard to the 
state and having a cover as shown on following page were dis- 
tributed. 

Maps of Nebraska showing the location of lands that may be 
entered in 640-acre tracts under the Kinkaid Homestead Act 
were also distributed in great numbers. The publications 
issued by the State Experiment Station at Lincoln, the land 
departments of the various railroads in Nebraska, and the 
farm journals of the state, all exploiting the resources of Ne- 
braska, were also presented to visitors. Five thousand copies 
of a very complete short history of the state of Nebraska, 
issued by the Nebraska Farmer, were generously donated to 
the commission for free distribution, by the proprietors of that 
journal. These histories were much sought after by visitors, 
and by special resolution the thanks of the commission were 
tendered to the publishers for their donation. 

At all of the exhibit booths maintained by the commission, 
the utmost courtesy was shown to visitors, and a constant 
desire on the part of those in charge exhibited, to explain fully 
and truly the advantages offered by our state to prospective 
settlers and investors. 

From scores of letters received by the commission it is known 
that this advertising matter, as well as the exhibit maintained 



REPORT OF NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 



NEBRASKA 



FIRST 

In small per cent of illiteracy. 

THIRD 

In products of meat packing plants. 

THIRD 

In production of corn. 

FOURTH 

In production of wheat. 

FOURTH 

In number of cattle and hogs on farms 
and ranges. 

FIFTH 

In production of oats and rye. 

FIFTH 

In production of beet sugar. 

SIXTH 

In number of acres in farms. 

SEVENTH 

In number of horses on farms and ranges. 

NINTH 

In value of farm products per acre. 

TENTH 

In cheese, butter and milk products. 



COMPILED BY THE 

NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION. 

OMAHA. 



at the exposition, has brought hundreds of people from all 
parts of the United States to Nebraska to investigate the 
state's opportunities as a place for settlement or investment. 

ENTERTAINMENT. 

Possessing no state building, and believing, as has been 
stated before, that the appropriation for Nebraska's represen- 
tation at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition was intended 
largely for the purpose of making a creditable showing of the 
state's resources and industries, the commission made no 



TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 25 

attempt whatever at elaborate entertainment during the fair. 
Instead, its constant endeavor was to maintain a spirit of 
genuine and hearty hospitality on every foot of space where 
Nebraska was represented. Besides welcoming all individuals, 
it may be stated that a reception and special moving picture 
exhibition was given in May to the Nebraska Press Association, 
numbering nearly one hundred editors of the leading papers in 
the state, and their families ; and a similar reception was also 
given to the special excursion of several hundred teachers from 
the State University summer school. The only attempt at 
elaborate entertainment made by the Nebraska Commission 
was on the occasion of Nebraska Day, October 25, when the 
state celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its organization as 
a territory. Hundreds of Nebraskans visited the fair and the 
state's exhibits on this occasion. Your Excellency and staff, 
and various officials from Lincoln and Omaha, came in special 
trains. At 9 o'clock in the morning of that day a handsome 
badge was distributed at the Nebraska headquarters to each 
Nebraskan present. At 10 o'clock the official party paid its 
respects to President Francis at the Administration building, 
and at noon a luncheon was served at the East Pavilion Cafe 
to the official party and the distinguished guests of the com- 
mission. The exercises of the day, held in celebration of the 
event, occurred at Festival Hall at 2 o'clock, and consisted of 
the following program : 

Organ. 

Prayer — Chancellor E. Benj. Andrews of the University of 
Nebraska. 

Address of Welcome — President D. R. Francis. 

Vocal — Mrs. Wagner Thomas, Omaha. 
a. "Parla" (Waltz Song), Arditi. ' 
1). "Ave Maria," Mascagni. 

Violin obligato — Robt. Cuscaden, Omaha. 

Address — Hon. John H. Mickey, Governor of Nebraska. 

Song — "Nebraska,'' by Will H. Maupin, Lincoln — The audience. 

Address — Hon. John L. Webster, Omaha. 



26 REPORT OP NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

Violin — Robt. Cuscaden, Omaha. 
a. Serenade, Schubert-Reinenji. 
~b. Gypsy Dance, T. Machez. 

Address — -G. W. Wattles, Omaha, President Nebraska State 
Commission. 

Doxology. 

After the exercises at Festival Hall, a reception to the official 
party was held at the Nebraska pavilion, when a special moving* 
picture exhibition for Nebraskans was given. On this day all 
of the exhibit booths were appropriately decorated, and special 
souvenirs presented to visitors. At the horticultural exhibit 
several hundred bushels of apples were distributed. 

FINANCES. 

Immediately after organization, realizing the inadequacy of 
the amount appropriated by the legislature to fitly prepare and 
install a representative exhibit of the state, the commission 
earnestly solicited citizens and corporations to increase the 
appropriation by donations. The result of these solicitations 
was the donation for the use of the commission of the sum of 
|25,000 by the following railway corporations : Union Pacific 
Railway Co., f 9,000 ; Burlington & Missouri River Railway Co.. 
|9,000; Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co., $7,000. These 
amounts were paid into the treasury of the commission by the 
donors, and were used in payment of the expenses incidental to 
collecting, preparing and installing the various exhibits and 
the moving picture exhibition. This amount paid all the ex 
penses of the commission until about the middle of the past 
summer, when the first requisition was made upon the state 
treasurer for $20,000. : The commission estimated that this 
amount would pay all its expenses for the remainder of the ex- 
position. A warrant was drawn and then turned over by the 
state auditor to the commission, with the understanding that 
subvouchers for the individual amounts spent were to be fur- 
nished later. This the commission has done, for the amounts 



TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 2? 

of money spent out of this $20,000, namely, $19,809.70 and the 
balance of $190.30 has been turned over to the state treasurer. 

In addition to the above amount, the commission also re- 
ceived $250 from the Beatrice Creamery Co., $125 from the 
Hygeia Creamery Co., of Omaha, and $125 from the Fairmont 
Creamery Co., of Fairmont, making a total of $500. This sum 
was paid to the commission with the express understanding 
that it was to be used only to pay for the charge of that 
amount made by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company 
for the necessary refrigeration in connection with the state's 
dairy exhibit. 

It will thus be seen that $60,500 was placed at the disposal 
of the Nebraska Commission, of which $45,309.70 has been ex- 
pended in collecting, installing and maintaining the various 
exhibits at St. Louis. 

The secretary of the commission was authorized to sell such 
of the exhibits and installation as could be disposed of, and 
from such sales he realized the sum of $590.75 which was 
turned over to the commissioner of public lands and build- 
ings as provided by the act creating the commission. 

It will thus be seen that out of the sum of $35,000 appro- 
priated by the state, only $19,809.70 has been used, and the bal- 
ance of $15,190.30 remains in the hands of the state treasurer. 

The moving picture films and negatives, together with much 
valuable exhibit material, have been turned over to the com- 
missioner of public lands and buildings, for such future use as 
the state may desire. 

That such a showing could be made is due to the fact that 
the commission has exercised the utmost care in managing its 
affairs. All unnecessary expense in the matter of attendants 
and in the collection of exhibits, was avoided. The commission 
Avas fortunate in securing a number of highly competent men 
as superintendents, who gave their services to the state with- 
out compensation, as well as a number of assistants and at- 
tendants who served for a reasonable compensation. The com- 
mission was also fortunate in the selection of its secretarv 



2o REPORT OF NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

H. G. Shedd of Lincoln. By his earnest efforts and com- 
petent service the commission was relieved of many of the 
cares and details of the work. Great assistance has been ren- 
dered by various organizations in the state, by the railroad 
companies, by the newspapers and farm journals, and by num- 
erous individuals who have generously made contributions of 
products and other exhibit materials. The constant interest 
of F. W. Taylor, formerly of Nebraska, chief of the agricul- 
tural and horticultural departments of the exposition, has 
also been of valuable assistance to the commission in innumer- 
able ways. During the entire time that the commission has 
been at work, Mr. Taylor has exhibited the most friendly in- 
terest, and by reason of his great experience in exposition work, 
and his commanding position at the late exposition, he was 
enabled to assist the Nebraska Commission in the successful 
execution of its plans. 

All of these elements have contributed to the excellent finan- 
cial showing which the commission takes pleasure in present- 
ing to your excellency and the citizens of Nebraska. 

The general statement of the finances of the commission is 
given below : 

GENERAL STATEMENT. 

Receipts. 

Appropriation by the state of Nebraska f 35,000 00 

Donation, Union Pacific Railway Co 9.000 00 

Donation. Burlington & Missouri River R. R. Co. . . . 9.000 00 

Donation, Chicago & North- Western Railway Co. . . 7.000 00 

Donation, Beatrice Creamery Co.. Lincoln -50 00 

Donation. Hygeia Creamery Co., Omaha 125 00 

Donation, Fairmont Creamery Co., Fairmont 125 00 

Received from sale of exhibits and installation. . . . 590 75 

$61,090 75 

Disbinsemoit'S. 

Agricultural exhibit $8,814 93 

Horticultural exhibit 4.435 84 

Educational exhibit including mineral and social 

science exhibits 4,839' 30 



TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 20 

.Moving picture exhibit 7.103 01 

Nebraska pavilion 6,049 80 

Live stock exhibit 1,404 95 

Poultry exhibit 169 08 

Dairy exhibit . 1.168 22 

State Historical Society exhibit 129 37 

Employees 3,745 58 

Advertising 1,728 81 

Miscellaneous matters 3,167 08 

Entertainment 852 55 

Commissioners' hotel and traveling expenditures . . . 801 03 
Paid commissioner public lands and buildings, re- 
ceipts from sale of exhibits and installation 590 75 

Balance refunded to state treasurer 15,190 30 

161,000 75 

EXPENDITURES IN DETAIL AS SHOWN BY VOUCHERS ON FILE WITH 
THE STATE AUDITOR. 

Voucher. 1003 Amount. 

1. G. W. Wattles, Omaha, money expended for post- 

age and office supplies f 144 10 

2. Smith Premier Typewriter Co., Omaha, machine 

and supplies 08 40 

3. Orchard & Wilhelm Co., Omaha, office furniture. 08 10 

4. Megeath Stationery Co., Omaha, office supplies. . 51 85 

5. Ivy Press, Lincoln, printed letterheads and en- 

velopes 11 05 

6. G. W. Wattles, Omaha, money paid on rent, 

June, 1903 8 00 

7. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, services assistant secretary. 

May 10 to July 10, 1903 . 250 00 

8. Ivy Press, Lincoln, lithographed letterheads and 

« vouchers 36 15 

9. Smith Premier Typewriter Co., Omaha, supplies 2 45 

10. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, money expended for' sup- 

plies and traveling expenses, May, June and 

July, 1903 55 90 

11. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, services assistant secre- 

tary, July 10 to August 10, 1003 125 00 

12. G. W. Wattles, Omaha, money expended for tele- 

phone 1 25 



30 REPORT OF NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

Voucher. Amount. 

13. W. F. Smith & Co., Omaha, office rent, July 8 to 

September 8, 1903 16 00 

14. Nebraska Telephone Co., Omaha, service. Sep- 

tember 1 25 

15. John Anderson, labor, agricultural department. . 2 60 

16. Western Union Telegraph Co., Omaha, service, 

June, July and August 12 68 

17. G. W. Wattles, Omaha, telephone and telegrams, 

August 8 32 

18. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, services, assistant secre- 

tary, August 10 to September 10 125 00 

19. Megeath Stationery Co., Omaha, office supplies. . 2 85 

20. Union National Bank, Omaha, telephone, June 

and July 2 80 

21. Wilson & Hall, Lincoln, nags 1 50 

22. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, traveling and incidental ex- 

penses moving pictures 94 41 

.23. Lincoln Sign Works, Lincoln, muslin banner, 

state fair 2 00 

24. New Omaha Thomson-Houston Electric Light 

Co., Omaha, desk lamp and current for August 4 70 

25. W. F. Smith & Co., Omaha, office rent, Septem- 

ber 8, to October 8 8 00 

26. Baker Furniture Co., Omaha, bookcase 18 75 

27. Lincoln Tent & Awning Co., Lincoln, rent tent 

state fair 7 50 

28. J. P. Cooke Co., Omaha, rubber stamps 2 45 

29. Jas. Walsh, Benson, money expended for hard- 

ware, lumber and rent warehouse, agriculture 43 89 

30. J. H. Taylor, Waterloo, labor, agriculture 9 10 

31. Carpenter Paper Co., Omaha, wax paper, horti- 

culture 22 50 

32. National Mfg.Co., Lincoln, oak frames, education 9 00 

33. E. H. Barbour, Lincoln, expense superintendent 

of education, August 17 to September 10 29 95 

34. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, services assistant secretary, 

September 10 to October 10 , 125 00 

35. W. F. Smith & Co., Omaha, office rent, October 9 

to November 9 8 00 

36. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, traveling expense assistant 

secretary, August 22 to 30 1 97 



TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 31 

Voucher. Amount. 

37. Nebraska Telephone Co., Omaha, service, October 1 25 

38. Western Union Telegraph Co., Omaha, tele- 

grams, October 5 37 

39. E. J. Sullivan, Omaha, warehouse rent, agricul- 

ture 15 00 

40. E. M. Pollard, Nehawka, expenses superintendent 

of horticulture, October 28 46 

41. Clopp & Bartlett, Omaha, 500 shipping tags, 

horticulture 2 00 

42. Carpenter Paper Co., Omaha, tissue paper, horti- 

culture 16 50 

43. Bullard & Hoagland, Omaha, lumber, agriculture 9 77 

44. C. D. Stoner, Polk county, services collecting 

sheaf grain 25 00 

45. S. H. Dole & Son, Gage county, services collecting 

sheaf grain 25 00 

46. J. J. Buckmaster, Knox county, services collect- 

ing sheaf grain 25 00 

47. S. Clingman, Butler county, services, collecting 

sheaf grain 25 00 

48. J. C. Dort, Pawnee county, services collecting- 

sheaf grain 25 00 

49. J. W. Darrah, Nemaha county, services collecting- 

sheaf grain 25 (10 

50. Chas. Grau, Douglas county, services collecting 

sheaf grain 25 00 

51. Payne-Bostwick & Co., Omaha, warehouse rent. 

October 21 to November 21. 25 00 

52. G. C. Christy, Johnson, 61-J barrels of apples, 

horticulture 378 50 

53. Nehawka Fruit Farm, Nehawka, 3 barrels apples, 

horticulture 15 00 

54. Nebraska Telephone Co., Omaha, long distance 

service, September, 1903 3 10 

55. Western Union Telegraph Co., Omaha, service, 

October 2 66 

56. J. C. Dort, Pawnee City, boxing grain, agricul- 

ture 1 50 

57. E. J. Sullivan, Omaha, warehouse rent, November 

1 to December 1 15 00 

58. Clement Chase, Omaha, 250 printed notices, agri- 

culture 2 00 



32 REPORT OP NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

Voucher. Amount. 

59. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, service, October 10 to No- 

vember 10 125 00 

60. Orchard & Wilhelm Co.. Omaha, two chairs 5 00 

61. E. M. Pollard. Nehawka, expense superintendent 

of horticulture, October 9 55 

62. Nehawka Fruit Farm, Nehawka. 15 boxes apples. 

horticulture 37 50 

63. W. F. Smith & Co., Omaha, office rent. November 

10 to December 10 8 00 

61. Nebraska Telephone Co.. Omaha, service. No- 
vember 1 25 

65 H. J. Loughran. Boone county, collecting sheaf 

grain 25 00 

66. G. W. Wattles. Omaha, money expended for tele- 

grams and express 6 50 

67. Johnson Bros.. Omaha, storage and freight paid. 16 11 

68. E. H. Barbour. Lincoln, expenses, superintendent 

of education 8 70 

69. E. G. Woodruff, labor, education 19 62 

70. Adams Express Co.. express, agriculture 10 75 

71. Ivy Press. Lincoln. 5000 letterheads, cards and 

vouchers 34 50 

72. Selig Polyscope Co., Chicago, 1000 ft. moving pic- 

ture negatives and positives 500 00 

73. E. G. Hills, labor, agriculture 74 70 

74. H. G. Shedd. Omaha, traveling expenses, moving 

pictures 40 46 

75. C. C. Wright. Thedford. collecting grasses, agri- 

culture 75 00 

76. J. H. Taylor. Waterloo, collecting grasses, agri- 

culture 75 00 

77. Wm. James. Crete, collecting grasses, agriculture 75 00 

78. C. H. Miller. Broken Bow. collecting grain, agri- 

culture 25 00 

79. Wm. James. Crete, collecting grain, agriculture. 25 00 

80. Lincoln Hardware Co., Lincoln, hardware, edu- 

cation 8 00 

81. Keview Press, Lincoln, stationery, education. ... 6 00 

82. Jos. Maguire, Omaha, coal, W. H., agriculture. . 12 37 

83. C. E. Bessey, Lincoln, expenses judging grasses, 

agriculture 3 40 



TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 33 

Voucher. Amount. 

84. Nebraska Paper & Bag Co., Lincoln, strawboard, 

education 1 55 

85. Western Union Telegraph €o., Omaha, service, 

December 4 24 

86. Miller & Paine, Lincoln, 103 yards burlap, educa- 

tion 7 73 

87. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, services secretary, Novem- 

ber 10 to December 10 * 125 00 

88. W. F. Smith & Co., Omaha, office rent, December 

10 to January 10, 1904 8 00 

89. Nebraska Telephone Co., Omaha, office phone 

December 1 25 

90. Nebraska Telephone Co., Omaha, warehouse 

phone, December, agriculture 3 75 

91. E. J. Sullivan, Omaha, warehouse rent, De- 

cember, agriculture ' 15 00 

92. E. G. Hills, labor, November, agriculture 50 00 

93. Bessie Devitte, Omaha, services, October 22 to 

November 22, agriculture 40 00 

94. Ida Bowes, Omaha, services, October 21 to No- 

vember 21, agriculture 40 00 

95. Sadie Hoye, Omaha, services, November 1 to 

December 1, agriculture 40 00 

96. Anna Frederiekson, services, November 5 to De- 

cember 5, agriculture 40 00 

97. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, traveling expense moving 

pictures, November 23 19 

98. David Hunter, Florence, 14 barrels apples, hor- 

ticulture 23 33 

99. Glenn Buell, 2 barrels apples, horticulture 9 00 

100. Payne-Bostwick Co., Omaha, warehouse rent No- 

vember 21 to December 21, agriculture 25 00 

101. Johnson Bros., Omaha, freight and storage, 

agriculture 15 16 

102. E. E. Smith, expenses judging grain, agriculture 11 60 

103. H. Smidt, Bennington, premium, sheaf grain. ... 6 00 

104. J. Brown, Bennington, premium, sheaf grain. ... 4 00 

105. F. Moulton, Elk City, premium, sheaf grain .... 2 50 

106. G. Dierks, Bennington, premium, sheaf grain. . . 18 00 

107. I. Wilt, Bennington, premium, sheaf grain 4 00 

108. S. Fee, Irvington, premium, sheaf grain 2 50 

109. G. Coen, Burwyn, premium, sheaf grain 6 00 



34 REPORT OF NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

Voucher. Amount. 

110. H. Gran, Elk City, premium, sheaf grain. ....... 8 00 

111. S. Miller, Broken Bow, premium, sheaf grain. . . . 2 50 

112. J. Lucken, Irvington, premium, sheaf grain 4 00 

113. H. J. Laughran, Albion, premium, sheaf grain. . 2 50 

114. C. Grau, Bennington, premium, sheaf grain 8 50 

115. Wm. James, Crete, premium, sheaf grain 8 50 

116. S.-K. Haws, Broken Bow, premium, sheaf grain. 4 00 

117. W. J. Windagb, Broken Bow, premium, sheaf 

grain 4 00 

118. C. Brush, Auburn 2 50 

119. C. C. Wright, Thedford, premium for grasses, 

agriculture 100 00 

120. Peter Jansen, Jansen, expenses commissioner, 

October and November 12 40 

121. Mound City Ice & C. S. Co., St. Louis, storage 

and express, horticulture 77 45 

122. E. H. Barbour, Lincoln, expenses superintend- 

ent of education 12 32 

123. E. G. Woodruff, labor, education 9 00 

124. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, traveling expenses, Novem- 

ber and December, moving pictures 13 70 

125. Payne-Bostwick Co., Omaha, warehouse rent, 

December 21 to January 21, 1904, agriculture 25 00 

126. G. W. King, Omaha, hardware, agriculture 3 16 

127. J. H. Taylor, labor collecting grain, agriculture. 11 90 

128. Wm. James, Crete, expenses collecting grain, 

agriculture 34 17 

129. E. G. Hills, services, December, agriculture 51 50 

130. A. B. Gregory, Franklin, collecting grain, agri- 

culture 3 50 

131. J. H. Ballard, Blair, 51 varieties of grain 50 00 

132. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, services secretary, Decem- 

ber 10 to January 10, 1904. . . 125 00 

133. Ida Bowes, services, November 21 to December 

21, agriculture 40 00 

134. May Brockelmeyer, services, December 1 to Janu- 

ary 1, 1904, agriculture 40 00 

135. Sadie Hoye, services, December 1 to January 

1, 1904, agriculture 40 00 

136. Anna Frederickson, services, December 5 to Jan- 

uary 5, 1904, agriculture 40 .00 



TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 35 

Voucher. Amount. 

137. Bessie Devitte, services, November 22 to Decem- 

ber 8, agriculture 20 00 

138. Matt Miller, David City, expenses commissioner, 

August to January 16 63 

139. Johnson Bros., Omaha, freight and drayage. agri- 

culture 3 72 

140. Western Union Telegraph Co., Omaha, services, 

December 2 69 

141. W. F. Smith & Co., Omaha, office rent, January 

8 to February 8 8 00 

142. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, traveling expenses, Decem- 

ber 19 to January 5, moving pictures 20 85 

143. A. B. Gregory, Franklin, collecting corn 10 00 

144. E. M. Pollard, Nehawka, expenses superintend- 

ent of horticulture 3 00 

145. Nebraska Telephone Co., Omaha service, agricul- 

ture 4 60 

146. Nebraska Telephone Co., Omaha, service, office. . 1 25 

147. Ivy Press, Lincoln, printed supplies , . 4 50 

148. E. J. Sullivan, Omaha, warehouse -rent, January, 

agriculture 15 00 

149. O. J. Fee, Lincoln, expenses, moving pictures. . . 9 25 

150. Megeath Stationery Co., Omaha, office supplies. . 1 75 

151. Rudge & Guenzel, document file 1 90 

152. Cornell Photo. Co., Lincoln, 44 lantern slides. . . 14 95 

153. Jas. Walsh, Benson, incidental supplies, agri- 

culture 11 07 

154. G. W. Wattles, Omaha, telegrams, December. ... 1 50 

155. E. H. Barbour, Lincoln, part payment services 
superintendent of education 100 00 

156. Ivy Press, Lincoln, 10,000 circulars and en- 

velopes, education 76 00 

157. Cornell Photo. Co., Lincoln, steel etching for 

map, education 1 44 

158. Nebraska Paper & Bag Co., Lincoln, 5,000 en- 

velopes, education 8 25 

159. Carpenter Paper Co., Omaha, 5,000 envelopes, ed- 

ucation 9 25 

160. E. H. Barbour, Lincoln, postage on circulars .... 70 25 

161. Payne-Bostwick Co., Omaha, warehouse rent, 

January 21 to February 21, agriculture 25 00 



36 REPORT OF NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

Voucher. Amount. 

162. O'Donahue Redmond Co., 220 yards cloth, agri- 

culture 12 64 

163. Anna Frederickson, services, January 5 to Feb- 

ruary 5, agriculture 40 00 

164. Sadie Hoye, services, January 1 to February 1, 

agriculture 40 00 

165. May Brockelmeyer, services, January 1 to Feb- 

ruary 1, agriculture 40 00 

166. Ida Bowes, services, December 21 to January 21, 

agriculture 40 00 

167. E. G. Hills, services, January, agriculture ...... 50 00 

168. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, services secretary, Janu- 

ary 10 to February 10 125 00 

169. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, traveling expenses, Janu- 

ary, moving pictures 14 70 

170. E. G. Woodruff, labor, education 6 75 

171. Selig Polyscope Co., Chicago, 3,000 feet moving 

picture negatives and positives 1,500 00 

172. W. F. Smith & Co., Omaha, office rent, February 

8 to March 8 8 00 

173. Nebraska Telephone Co., Omaha, office service, 

February 1 25 

174. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, services secretary, Feb- 

ruary 10 to March 10 125 00 

175. Dierks Lumber Co., Lincoln, lumber, education. . 18 00 

176. E. M. Pollard, Nehawka, expenses superintend- 

ent of horticulture 4 30 

177. W. J. Hesser, Plattsmouth, hot-house plants, 

horticulture 50 00 

178. Sunderland Bros., Omaha, coal, agriculture. ... 7 15 

179. Nebraska Telephone Co., Omaha, service, agricul- 

ture 4 10 

180. F. E. Clements, Lincoln, classifying grasses, 

agriculture . 8 55 

181. Johnson Bros., Omaha, freight and drayage, agri- 

culture 8 17 

182. E. J. Sullivan, Omaha, warehouse rent, Feb- 

ruary, agriculture 15 00 

183. E. G. Hills, services, February, agriculture 50 00 

184. Anna Frederickson, services, February 5 to 16, 

agriculture . 16 50 



TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 37 

Voucher. Amount. 

185. Sadie Hove, services, February 5 to 16, agri- 

culture " 22 40 

186. May Brockelmeyer, services, February 5 to 16, 

agriculture 22 40 

187. Ida Bowes, services, January 21 to February 16, 

agriculture 38 40 

188. J. W. Magney, Weeping Water, collecting corn. . 3 50 

189. Payne-Bostwick Co., Omaha, warehouse rent, 

February 21 to March 21, agriculture 25 00 

190. Wm. James, Crete, money paid for corn and ex- 

penses collecting same 204 95 

191. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, traveling expenses, Febru- 

ary, moving pictures ■. 37 84 

192. Cancelled. 

193. Smith Premier Typewriter Co., supplies 2 55 

194. J. Morton & Son, Omaha, wire, agriculture 4 25 

195. Helena Redford, Lincoln, labor, education 38 75 

196. E. H. Barbour, Lincoln, expenses superintendent 

of education 2 95 

197. Harden Bros., Omaha, cloth, agriculture 3 95 

198. G. W. Wattles, Omaha, telephone and telegraph 1 61 

199. Western L^nion Telegraph Co., Omaha, services, 

February 4 86 

200. F. A. Kerhe, Omaha, carpenter work, agricul- 

ture 10 50 

201. Bemis Bag Co., Omaha, bags, agriculture 9 63 

202. Expressman's Delivery Co., Omaha, crating fur- 

niture 8 80 

203. S. C. Bassett, Gibbon, expenses superintendent of 

dairy exhibit 2 24 

204. G. W. King, Omaha, hardware, agriculture 3 26 

205. E. G. Hills, incidental expenses, shipping ex- 

hibits 5 50 

206. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, contingent fund for neces- 

sary expenses in installing Nebraska exhibits, 

St. Louis 500 00 

207. F. Echtenkamp, Arlington, premium, Nebraska 

Corn Show 57 83 

208. R. Hogue, Crete, premium, Nebraska Corn Show 28 93 

209. C. M. Schmale, Emerald, premium, Nebraska 

Corn Show 13 91 



38 REPORT OP NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

Voucher. Amount. 

210. Jos. Hall, Tekamah, premium, Nebraska Corn 

Show 40 27 

211. C. F. Chase, Pawnee City, premium, Nebraska 

Corn Show 17 94 

212. J. M. Wild, De Soto, premium, Nebraska Corn 

Show 40 20 

213. Harry Seltz, De Soto, premium, Nebraska Corn 

Show 73 

214. H. M. Smith & Son, De Soto, premium. Nebraska 

Corn Show 116 82 

215. C. B. Camp, Cheney, premium, Nebraska Corn 

Show .-...." 11 71 

216. N. P. Jensen, Lincoln, premium, Nebraska Corn 

Show : 13 91 

217. G. W. Monnieh, Hooper, premium, Nebraska 

Corn Show 24 17 

218. Win. Ernst, Jr., Graf, premium, Nebraska Corn 

Show 6 58 

219. A. Martin, Du Bois, premium, Nebraska Corn 

Show . 26 00 

220. A. J. Olsen, Wahoo 21 97 

221. C. B. Barton, Beatrice, premium, Nebraska Corn 

Show 146 00 

222. C. Grau, Bennington, premium, Nebraska Corn 

Show 18 31 

223. Susan Lewis, Nebraska City, premium, Nebraska 

Corn Show 10 99 

224. F. B. Liphardt, Graf, premium, Nebraska Corn 

Show 28 20 

225. D. M. Syford, Lincoln, premium, Nebraska Corn 

Show 7 32 

226. J. A. Spangler, Arlington, premium, Nebraska 

Corn Show 12 45 

227. H. Matthews, De Soto, premium, Nebraska Corn 

Show 16 85 

228. Jno. Chelmka, Valparaiso, premium, Nebraska 

Corn Show 12 45 

229. J.C.Lloyd, Utica, premium, Nebraska Corn Show 26 37 

230. R. M. Wolcott, Palmer, premium, Nebraska Corn 

Show 38 05 

231. H. T. Avery, Unadilla, premium, Nebraska Corn 

Show 14 65 



TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 39 

Voucher. Amount. 

232. C. A. Mahan, Malcolm, premium, Nebraska Corn 

Show 7 32 

233. J. E. Atkinson, Pawnee City, premium, Nebraska 

Corn Show 19 04 

234. M. C. Hurlburt, Fairbury, premium, Nebraska 

Corn Show 13 18 

235. M. McCormick, Beaver, premium, Nebraska Corn 

Show 7 69 

236. B. Van Grenningen, Adams, premium, Nebraska 

Corn Show 6 59 

237. J. C. Petrie, Seward, premium, Nebraska Corn 

Show 4 39 

238. Geo. Dierks, Bennington, premium, Nebraska 

Corn Show 16 48 

239. Jno. Shievs, Beatrice, premium, Nebraska Corn 

Show 73 

240. Aye Bros., Blair, premium, Nebraska Corn Show 31 49 

241. J. A. Miller, Arlington, premium, Nebraska Corn 

Show 73 

242. C. Carberg, Arlington, premium, Nebraska Corn 

Show 11 21 

243. Wm. Hilgenkamp, Arlington, premium, Nebraska 

Corn Show 2 19 

244. C. Bochschutte, Arlington, premium, Nebraska 

Corn Show 16 11 

245. Wm. Sutherland, St. Louis, on account contract 

price Nebraska pavilion, Agricultural Palace.. 2,220 00 

246. W. M. Sutherland, St. Louis fire-proofing canvas 

Nebraska pavilion, as ordered by Exposition 
Company 20 00 

247. R. G. Schisler, St. Louis, flooring mineral exhibit 39 27 

248. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, services secretary, March 

10 to April 10 125 00 

249. E. G. Hills, service, March, agriculture 50 00 

250. Johnson Bros., Omaha, freight and drayage, agri- 

culture 79 01 

251. Wm. James, Crete, money expended collecting 

corn, expenses collecting same, and freight on 
car-load exhibits from Lincoln, agriculture ex- 
hibit 360 27 

252. E. G. Hills, money expended hardware, crates, 

etc., agriculture 15 25 



40 REPORT OF NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

Voucher. Amount. 

253. Kostka Glass & Paint Co., Lincoln, paint, educa- 

tion 2 10 

254. Lincoln Drug Co., Lincoln, corks, education .... 1 10 

255. Lincoln Hardware Co., Lincoln, hardware, educa- 

tion 2 20 

256. Miller & Paine, Lincoln, burlap, education 2 85 

257. Carpenter Paper Co., Omaha, paper, education. . 7 96 
25S. E. H. Barbour. Lincoln, money expended for 

labor, educational exhibit, and expenses as 
superintendent 131 70 

259. A. D. Gregg, Lincoln, 10 cases. State Historical 

Society exhibit 58 00 

260. Standard Planing Mill, Lincoln, lumber, State 

Historical Society exhibit 1 95 

261. Cornell Photo Co., Lincoln, 16 lantern slides 16 10 

262. E. M. Pollard, Xehawka, expenses. February. 

superintendent of horticulture 10 36 

263*. W. J. Hesser, Plattsmouth, plants, horticulture. . 82 30 
261. Lincoln Trans. Co., Lincoln, freight and drayage, 

agriculture . 69 73 

265. R. M. Wolcott. Palmer, corn, agriculture ...... 1125 

266. T. L. Lyon, Lincoln, packing corn show exhibit. . 9 50 

267. J. D. Hasik. Abie, corn and grain, agriculture. . 4 75 

268. E. G. Hills, money paid for corn, boxes for same. 

agriculture 43 63 

269. P. C. Maitox, St. Louis, rustic arbor, horticulture 85 00 

270. Johnson Bros.. Omaha, freight charges paid, ex- 

hibit from Omaha, agriculture 95 04 

271. Mound City Ice & C. S. Co., St. Louis, storage on 

fruit, horticulture 40 50 

272. Emil Granberg. lumber for tables, horticulture. . 81 72 

273. Payne-Bostwick Co.. Omaha, warehouse rent. 

March 21 to 30. agriculture 7 50 

274. J. W. Haws. Minden. collecting sheaf grain. 

agriculture 15 00 

275. Johnson Bros.. Omaha, drayage and freight ad- 

vertisino- exhibits, agriculture 55 61 



27 



6. Western Union Telegraph Co.. Omaha, services. 

February 1 48 

277. St. Louis Safe & Desk Co.. St. Louis, one safe 55 00 

278. Ivy Press. Lincoln. 2.000 envelopes 7 75 

279. S. G. Adams Co.. St. Louis, office supplies 1 07 



TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 41 

Voucher. Amount. 

280. Peter Jansen, Jansen, expenses commissioner, 

December 17 to April 10 43 54 

281. Postal Telegraph Co., Omaha, services, March ... 1 60 

282. Kostka Glass & Paint Co., Lincoln, 40 pieces plate 

glass, Historical Society exhibit 40 00 

283. Miller & Paine, Lincoln, 25 yards cloth, His- 

torical Society 3 75 

284. Great Western Type Foundry, type for labels, 

Historical Society 1 96 

285. W. A. Bailey, Lincoln, painting cases, Historical 

Society exhibit 16 55 

286. Lammert Furniture Co., six rockers for pavilion 29 75 

287. Zahn Electric Co., St. Louis, installing electric 

wiring, as per specifications 97 00 

288. W. M. Sutherland, St. Louis, balance on Nebraska 

pavilion contract, corn tower and extras as 
specified 3,123 00 

289. Ivy Press, Lincoln, folders, education 3 25 

290. H. I. Bedford, Lincoln, traveling expenses, edu- 

cational exhibit 33 25 

291. G. W, Wattles, Omaha, expenses commissioner 

and money paid for telegrams February 23 to 

April 1 23 32 

292. Woodruff-Collins Printing Co., Lincoln, printed 

supplies, education 47 90 

293. Cornell Photo Co., Lincoln, photos, prints and 

transparencies, education 35 74 

294. Lincoln Transfer Co., Lincoln, freight and dray- 

age, educational exhibit 4 55 

295. Lincoln Photo Supply Co., Lincoln, supplies, edu- 

cation 11 17 

296. Harry Porter, Lincoln, school supplies, educa- 

tional exhibit 9 05 

297. T. J. Thorpe & Co., sign markers, educational 

exhibit 3 90 

298. Lincoln Hardware Co., Lincoln, hardware, edu- 

cation 1 38 

299. Dierks Lumber Co., Lincoln lumber, education. . 47 05 

300. Standard Planing Mill Co., Lincoln, bases and 

moulding, education 75 25 

301. Prof. Caldwell, Peru, photographs, State Normal 

exhibit 26 75 



42 REPORT OP NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

Voucher. Amount. 

302. G. A. Crancer Co., Lincoln, photo supplies, edu- 

cation 2 58 

303. Lincoln Sign Works, Lincoln, lettering cases, edu- 

cation 5 00 

304. Lincoln Upholstering Co., Lincoln, excelsior, edu- 

cation 4 81 

305. E. G. Woodruff, Lincoln, incidentals for educa- 

tional exhibit 2 90 

300. A. O. Wiggenjost, Lincoln, clerical work, edu- 
cation 14 20 

307. E. G. Hills, services, April, agriculture .... 60 00 

308. Win. James, Crete, services, April, agriculture. . 75 00 

309. J. W. Scarborough, services, April 11 ta May 11, 

agriculture 75 00 

310. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, services secretary, April 10 

to May 10 125 00 

311. Kostka Glass & Paint Co., Lincoln, supplies, edu- 

cation 10 00 

312. Carpenter Paper Co., Omaha, cardboard, educa- 

tion 36 67 

313. M. C. McMahon, labor, education 6 72 

314. J. Cather, labor, education 3 30 

315. J. L. Pepperberg, labor, education 1 25 

316. Simmons Hardware Co., St. Louis, hardware, 

agriculture . 93 92 

317. Jas. Walsh, Benson, money paid for corn and 

expenses collecting same 177 35 

318. Jos. Herstine Plumbing Co., St. Louis, plumbing 

and sewering, as per specifications, Nebraska 
pavilion 160 00 

319. Western Glass & Paint Co., Lincoln, paint and 

supplies, education 2 55 

320. Lincoln Hardware Co., Lincoln, tools, education 3 00 

321. General Service Co., St. Louis, transfer exhibit 

material, education 12 85 

322. E. M. Pollard, Nehawka, expenses superintend- 

ent of horticulture 10 95 

323. Wm. James, Crete, money paid for corn, and ex- 

penses collecting same, agriculture 64 71 

324. H. Polhill Co., St. Louis, 18 banners and signs, 

Nebraska pavilion 39 40 



TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 43 

Voucher. Amount. 

325. Frank A. Ward, mounting steer "Challenger" and 

express charges on same 197 20 

326. E. G. Woodruff, Lincoln, labor, education 40 25 

327. C. A. Barbour, services two months, education. . 140 00 

328. E. L. Webster, labor, education 91 00 

329. N. F. Graham, labor, education 11 92 

330. E. H. Bowman, labor, education 3 23 

331. John Uhl, Lincoln, labor, education 2 70 

332. G. W. Hoar, labor, education 5 18 

333. Glen Smith, labor, education 13 43 

334. P. R. Jones, labor, education 3 15 

335. Helena I. Bedford, two months' labor, education 133 00 

336. E. H. Barbour, Lincoln, expenses superintendent 

of education 167 03 

337. Jos. Hadkinson, services one-third month, April, 

horticulture ..- 25 00 

338. Orchard & Wilhelm, Omaha, expenses, decorator 

and designer for Nebraska pavilion 267 30 

339. Lee Smith, 40 bushels seed corn, agriculture .... 100 00 

340. Matt Miller, David City, expenses commissioner, 

December 21 to March 30 24 01 

341. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, contingent fund for neces- 

sary expenses installing and starting Nebraska 

exhibits 375 02 

342. Herman & Co., St. Louis, sign, horticulture 15 00 

343. A. L. Fleshman, St. Louis, table, Nebraska 

pavilion 25 00 

344. Official Photo Co., St. Louis, moving picture serv- 

ice, April 29 to May 26 400 00 

345. G. W. Wattles, Omaha, expenses commissioner, 

April 29 to May 30 22 70 

346. Peter Jansen, Jansen, expenses commissioner, 

April 27 to May 2 26 15 

347. Lammert Furniture Co., St. Louis, six settees 

and rockers, pavilion 30 50 

348. S. G. Adams Co., St. Louis, office supplies 11 93 

349. J. H. Crane Co., St. Louis, table, pavilion 5 00 

350. A. H. Andrews Co., Chicago, 104 opera chairs, 

theatre 161 20 

351. J. L. Krez Mfg. Co., St. Louis, 16 sheets as- 

bestos, theatre 17 51 



44 REPORT OF NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

Voucher. Amount. 

352. Matt Miller, David City, expenses commissioner, 

April 27 to May 27 23 85 

353. Jas. Walsh, Benson, money paid for lumber and 

incidentals, agriculture 32 00 

354. Zahn Electric Co., St. Louis, special wiring, mov- 

ing picture motor 10 95 

355. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, contingent fund for ex- 

penses of Nebraska exhibits for June 100 00 

356. Buxton & Skinner, St. Louis, 500 printed cards, 

horticulture 9 35 

357. J. H. Crane Co., St. Louis, one desk, four rock- 

ers and chairs, horticulture 26 50 

358. Mound City Ice & C. S. Co., St. Louis, drayage 

for fruit, horticulture 1 90 

359. R. G. Schisler, St. Louis, burlaping, boarding and 

painting rear wall education exhibit 47 50 

360. Lincoln Upholstering Co., Lincoln, two packages 

excelsior, education 2 52 

361. Buxton & Skinner, St. Louis, two Wernicke units, 

seven tops, three bases 13 90 

362. W. M. Sutherland, St. Louis, contract price, edu- 

cational booth . 869 00 

363. Edith L. Webster, services, May, education 75 00 

364. Carrie A. Barbour, services, May, education .... 70 00 

365. E. H. Barbour, Lincoln, expenses, May, super- 

intendent of education 208 69 

366. Johnson Bros., Omaha, twenty-six jars corn pro- 

ducts, freight and drayage, agriculture 32 02 

367. J. H. Taylor, collecting corn, agriculture 16 00 

368. J. W. Scarborough, labor, corn tower, tools, etc.. 

May 8 to 12 27 83 

369. E. G. Hills, tools, agriculture 60 

370. Miss C. L. Weber, St. Louis, stenographic work, 

agriculture 1 50 

371. S. E. Brassfield, labor, agriculture. 41 00 

372. Mrs. Win. James, labor, agriculture 13 60 

373. Roy James, labor, agriculture 19 72 

374. Simmons Hardware Co., St. Louis, hardware, 

agriculture 25 00 

375. Wm. James, Crete, buying and collecting corn; 

money paid for incidentals, agriculture 15 35 



TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 45 

Voucher. Amount. 

376. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, incidental expenses secre- 

tary, April 30 to May 27 61 46 

377. A. L. Haecker, Lincoln, expenses assistant super- 

intendent of dairying, May 23 40 

378. S. C. Bassett, Gibbon, expenses superintendent of 

dairying, February 23 to April 30 22 05 

379. F. M. Randall, St. Louis, one case grape juice. . . 5 00 

380. Welch Grape Juice Co., grape juice 12 00 

381. Miss C. L. Weber, St. Louis, stenographic work, 

secretary, April and May 36 85 

382. Erker Opt. Co., St. Louis, three lantern slides. . . 1 50 

383. Rees Printing Co., Omaha, 50,000 handbooks on 

Nebraska 590 70 

384. E. M. Pollard, Nehawka, expenses superintendent 

of horticulture 47 15 

385. Mr. and Mrs. J. Hadkinson, services assistant 

superintendent of horticulture, May 75 00 

386. Wm. James, Crete, services, May, assistant super- 

intendent of agriculture 75 00 

387. E. G. Hills, services, May, assistant superintend- 

ent of agriculture 75 00 

388. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, services secretary, May 

10 to June 10 125 00 

389. Harry Weatherwax, services in full, superintend- 

ent of building and installation 50 00 

390. Comfort Printing Co., St. Louis, stationery cor- 

respondence table 39 00 

391. Official Photo Co., St. Louis, service, moving pic- 

ture, May 27 to June 25 400 00 

392. Bush & Latta, St. Louis, 355 yards, burlaping, 

painting, gilding, lettering, etc., Nebraska pa- 
vilion and corn tower 192 85 

393. A. L. Haecker, Lincoln, services, June, assistant 

superintendent of dairying 75 00 

394. A. L. Haecker, Lincoln, money expended for 

photos., maps, butter, etc., dairy exhibit 26 52 

395. G. W. Alexander, Julian, expenses called meeting 

horticulturists 5 60 

396. Erker Bros. Opt. Co., St. Louis, fifty-five lantern 

slides 22 10 

397. C. Young & Sons Co., St. Louis, pots for plants, 

horticulture 7 95 



46 REPORT OF NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

Voucher. Amount. 

398. L. Bauman & Co., St. Louis, artificial vines and 

leaves, horticulture 64 75 

399. E. M. Pollard, Nehawka, expenses, May 24 to 

June 30, superintendent of horticulture 118 48 

400. Edith L. Webster, services June, education 75 00 

401. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, services secretary, June 

10 to July 1 83 34 

402. A. S. Reasoner, services lecturer, June 3 to 

July 1 70 00 

403. Mr. and Mrs. J. Hadkinson, services, June, as- 

sistant superintendent of horticulture 75 00 

404. E. G. Hills, services, June, agriculture 75 00 

405. Wm. James, Crete, services, June, agriculture. . 75 00 

406. Chas. Ussang, artificial morning glories, agri- 

culture 11 47 

407. J. H. Crane Co., St. Louis, one table, dairy ex- 

hibit ^.... 5 00 

408. S. C. Bassett, Gibbon, three photographs for 

dairy exhibit I 2 00 

409. Lammert Furn. Co., St. Louis, six settees, pa- 

vilion 45 00 

410. Official Photo. Co.. St. Louis, service, moving 

picture, June 23 to July 7 200 00 

411. G. A. Jacobson, St. Louis, altering opera chairs. 4 00 

412. Commercial Electric Supply Co.» St. Louis, eight 

electric fans and fixtures 119 20 

413. Mound City Ice & C. S. Co., St. Louis, ice. hor- 

ticulture 24 25 

414. Ed Malm, St. Louis, dairy installation 14 00 

415. H. Polhill Co., St. Louis, sign, moving pictures. . 37 24 

416. Refrigerating Plant, St. Louis, 2,000-lb. ice-book, 

pavilion 10 00 

417. Comfort Printing Co., St. Louis, 5,000 printed 

envelopes 3 00 

418. Western Union Telegraph Co., Omaha, telegrams 1 28 

419. Postal Telegraph Co., Omaha, telegrams 1 11 

420. Miss C. L. Weber, St. Louis, stenographic work 

secretary, June 23 85 

421. S. G. Adams Co., St. Louis, stationery and sup- 

plies 7 10 

422. Ludlow-Saylor Wire Co., St. Louis, wire sign, 

pavilion, as per specifications 30 00 



TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 47 

Voucher. „ Amount. 

423. Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co., electric serv- 

ice, June 37 66 

424. Simmons Hardware Co., St. Louis, three water 

coolers and hardware, pavilion 35 98 

425. E. G. Baker Co., painting and finishing educa- 

tional cases and exhibits 27 00 

426. Nebraska School for the Deaf, Omaha, transport- 

ing and maintaining class in social science 

exhibit 100 63 

427. Sam Brassfield, labor, agriculture 47 00 

428. Wni. James, Crete, money expended for labor and 

hardware, agriculture 17 35 

429. J. C. Robinson, Waterloo, one barrel sweet corn 5 00 

430. Jas. Walsh, Benson, expenses, June, superintend- 

ent of agriculture, exhibit 22 30 

431. G. W. King, Omaha, hardware, agriculture 1 65 

432. Refrigerating Plant, St. Louis, 2,000 pounds ice, 

horticulture 8 00 

433. Mound City Ice & C. S. Co., St. Louis, drayage 

and storage fruit, horticulture 14 17 

434. G. C. Christy. Brownville, fruit, horticulture 18 55 

435. Ohio China Co., East Palestine, O., eighty-three 

and five-sixths dozen plates, horticulture 91 61 

436. Cornell Photo Co., Lincoln, photographs for hor- 

ticulture exhibit . 36 82 

437. Mr. and Mrs. J. Hadkinson, services July, horti- 

culture 75 00 

438. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, money paid for express, 

horticulture 38 48 

439. G. A. Marshall, expenses meeting horticultur- 

ists, at Lincoln 7 32 

440. E. M. Pollard, Nehawka, expenses, July, superin- 

tendent of horticulture 77 30 

441. E. H. Barbour, Lincoln, expenses, June and July, 

superintendent of education 201 76 

442. Edith L. Webster, services July, education 75 00 

443. Lincoln Hardware Co., Lincoln, hardware, edu- 

cation 75 

444. Carpenter Paper Co., Omaha, paper and cards, 

education 3 60 

445. Western Glass & Paint Co., Lincoln, glass, educa- 

tion 65 



48 REPORT OF NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

Voucher. Amount. 

446. Harry Porter, Lincoln, supplies, education 2 50 

447. E. G. Baker & Co., St. Louis, painting windows, 

tinting wall and staining floors, education .... 30 00 

448. Miller & Paine, Lincoln, cloth, educational ex- 

hibit 21 19 

449. Buxton & Skinner, St. Louis, bases for exhibit 

cases and stationery, education 23 15 

450. Kostka Paint and Glass Co., Lincoln, glass, edu- 

cational exhibit 26 25 

451. A. E. Pope, St. Louis, board and lodging class 

Nebraska School for Deaf 71 90 

452. Nebraska State Journal. Lincoln, 25,000 copies 

map ''Nebraska'- 192 9 J 

453. E. L. Fleshman, St. Louis, table, Nebraska pa- 

vilion 7 00 

454. Gorman Grilli Co., staff ornaments, corn tower. . 25 00 

455. Lammert Furniture Co., St. Louis, one table, 

fourteen settees and rockers 81 00 

456. Cornell Photo Co., Lincoln, thirteen lantern slides 4 55 

457. Official Photo Co., St. Louis, moving picture serv- 

ice, July 8 to August 4. . 400 00 

458. Erker Bros. Opt. Co., St. Louis, three lantern 

slides 1 20 

459. Smith Premier Typewriter Co., typewriter roller 2 00 

460. Kate Halleron, St. Louis, stenographic work, 

secretary 13 60 

461. Refrigerating Plant, St. Louis, 2,000 pounds ice. 

pavilion 10 00 

462. S. G. Adams Co., St. Louis, office supplies 8 65 

463. Simmons Hardware Co., St. Louis, floor brushes 

and supplies 3 25 

464. Ivy Press, Lincoln, 5,000 lithographed letterheads 20 50 

465. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, toweling and telegrams. . . 6 58 

466. Matt Miller, David City, expenses commissioner, 

July ....'. 115 83 

467. G. W. Wattles, Omaha, expenses commissioner, 

May 28 to July 6 48 30 

468. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, services, secretary, July. . 125 00 

469. Mrs. H. Hampton, St. Louis, janitor service, 

July, pavilion 40 00 

470. A. S. Reasoner, services, July, lecturer, theatre . . 75 00 

471. F. L. Rain, services, July, lecturer, theatre 75 00 



TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 49 

Voucher. Amount. 

472 Wm. James, Crete, services, July, agriculture .... 75 00 

473. E. G. Hills, services, July, agriculture 75 00 

474. Comfort Printing Co., St. Louis, printed labels. 

agriculture 4 00 

475. Jas. Walsh, Benson, expenses superintendent of 

agriculture 10 35 

476. Peter Jansen, Jansen, expenses commissioner. 

July . 49 50 

477. Kennard Carpet Co., St. Louis, 334 feet guard 

rope, ends, brass hooks, fixtures and labor. . . . 187 35 

478. Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co., electric serv- 

ice, July 88 87 

479. Fred Schmale, St. Louis, modeling dairy exhibit . 20 00 

480. Chas. Kirshman, St. Louis, time and material, in- 

stalling electric fans 32 25 

481. L. D. Stilson, services, dairy, August 6 to 31 62 50 

482. A. L. Haecker, Lincoln, services, dairy, August 1 

to 6, and incidental expenses 17 40 

483. St. Louis Dairy Co., thirty-three pounds butter. 

dairy exhibit 8 25 

484. Herbert Polhill Co., St. Louis, three signs, dairy 

exhibit 2 00 

485. Selig Polyscope Co., Chicago, 2,291 feet moving- 

picture negative and positive ; 640 feet positive 

film 1,241 50 

486. J. C. Peters, janitor service, July, education 

and mines . . . . 8 00 

487. F. W. Taylor, St. Louis, ninety-seven feet iron 

railing, four posts, corn exhibit 76 14 

488. Jno. G. Weber & Son, Clayton, Mo., twenty gal- 

lons oil, pavilion floor 17 65. 

489. E. G. Hills, service, August, agriculture 75 00 

490. Wm. James, Crete, service, August, agriculture 75 00 

491. Edith L. Webster, service, August, education ... 75 00 

492. J. C. Peters, janitor service, August, education 

and mines 10 00 

493. L. D. Stilson, service, August, dairy 75 00 

494. Mr. and Mrs. J. Hadkinson, services, August. 

horticulture 75 00 

495. Official Photograph Co., St. Louis, moving pic- 

ture service, August 4 to September 1 400 00 

496. H. C. Shedd, Omaha, services secretary, August 125 00 



50 REPORT OF NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

Voucher. Amount. 

497. A. S. Reasoner, services, Aug. 1 and 2, lecturer. . 5 00 

498. Mrs. Helen Hampton, St. Louis, janitor service. 

August, pavilion 40 00 

499. E. H. Clark, Lincoln, service, August, lecturer. . 75 00 

500. Geo. C. Shedd, Lincoln, service, August 20 to 

31, lecturer . 30 00 

501. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, express, horticultural ex- 

hibit 73 67 

502. Refrigerating Plant, St. Louis, 4,000 pounds ice. 

pavilion 20 00 

503. Comfort Printing Co., St. Louis, 1,000 labels, 

1,000 envelopes 6 50 

504. Orchard & Wilhelm, Omaha, two curtains, 

theatre 20 00 

505. S. G. Adams Co., St. Louis, office supplies 3 25 

506. Miss C. L. Weber, St. Louis, stenographic serv- 

ice, August 3 00 

507. Edith L. Webster, painting lantern slides 13 00 

508. Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co., electric serv- 

ice, August 37 00 

509. General Service Co.. St. Louis, transfer, educa- 

tional exhibit 1 10 

510. St. Louis Dairy Co., four pounds butter, dairy 

exhibit 1 00 

511. J. North & Co., Lincoln, two visitor registers. ... 18 00 

512. Wm. Waltke, St. Louis, one box soap 3 85 

513. Erker Bros. Opt. Co., St. Louis, nine lantern 

slides 2 25 

514. J. Cady, signs, agriculture 13 50 

515. Matt Miller, David City, expenses commissioner. 

August 116 40 

516. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, money paid for signs, agri- 

culture . 7 80 

517. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, traveling and incidental ex- 

penses as secretary, August 1 to September 5 . . 40 36 

518. Omaha Box Company, Omaha, 100 apple boxes. 

horticulture 13 00 

519. Frank L. Rain, services, August, lecturer 75 00 

520. Wm. H. Thompson, Treas. L. P. E. Co., Nebraska 

pro rata share dairy refrigeration 500 00 

521. E. M. Pollard, Nehawka, expenses, August, super- 

intendent of horticulture 59 99 



TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 51 

Voucher. Amount. 

522. Mound City Ice & C. S. Co., St. Louis, storage 

and drayage fruit, horticulture 21 45 

523. McCormick & Koopman, Fremont, fruit 60 00 

524. J. M. Kussell, Lincoln, fruit, horticulture 95 00 

525. G. S. Christy, Brownville, fruit, horticulture 17 25 

526. C. H. Frey, Lincoln, fruit, horticulture 129 50 

527. B. Wolph, Weeping Water, fruit, horticulture. . . 3 00 

528. Selig Polyscope Co., Chicago, 1,700 feet positive 

film 255 00 

529. E. H. Barbour, Lincoln, second payment, services 

superintendent of education 250 00 

530. Pacific Express Co.; express, horticulture 37 50 

531. G. C. Shedd, Lincoln, services, September 1 to 

25, lecturer 62 50 

532. L. D. Stilson, services, September, dairy 75 00 

533. Edith L. Webster, services, September, education 75 00 

534. R. S. Williams, janitor service, September, edu- 

cation and mines 10 00 

535. D. D. Wayn, janitor service, July 1 to September 

30, horticulture 15 00 

536. Mr. and Mrs. J. Hadkinson, services, September, 

horticulture 75 00 

537. Wm. James, Crete, services, September, agri- 

culture 75 00 

538. E. G. Hills, services, September, agriculture. ... 75 00 

539. Official Photograph Co., St. Louis, moving picture 

service, September 1 to 29 400 00 

540. Mrs. M. Eastman, services hostess, September 

18 to 30 32 50 

541. Mrs. H. Hampton, janitor service, September. 

pavilion 40 00 

542. W. C. Mercer, services, September, lecturer 75 00 

543. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, services, secretary, Sep- 

tember 125 00 

544. Buell Chessington, services, September 29 and 

30, lecturer 5 00 

545. S. G. Adams Co., St. Louis, office supplies 6 00 

546. Peter Jansen, Jansen, expenses commissioner. 

September 59 25 

547. Erker Bros. Opt. Co., St. Louis, seven lantern 

slides 3 25 

548. H. Polhill Co., St. Louis, repairing clock hands. . 1 00 



52 REPORT OF NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

Voucher. Amount. 

549. Comfort Printing Co., St. Louis, 5,000 printed 

note heads 6 00 

550. Kees Printing Co., Omaha, 50,780 Nebraska hand- 

books 508 70 

551. E. E. Stuart, Omaha, expenses sending class Ne- 

braska School for Deaf to Fair 23 54 

552. L. D. Stilson, incidentals for dairy and honey 

exhibits 6 57 

553. General Service Co., St. Louis, storage of crates, 

education 13 20 

554. J. A. Yager, services, September, horticulture. . . 26 00 

555. Julian Fruit Farm, Julian, fruit, horticulture. . 165 73 

556. G. S. Christy, Brownville, fruit, horticulture 71 85 

557. E. M. Pollard, Nehawka, expenses superintendent 

of horticulture 84 95 

558. Ohio China Company, East Palestine, O., extra 

plates, horticulture 38 18 

559. J. Cady, painting and labeling, Nebraska pavilion 24 00 

560. J.Cady, services, horticulture 7 50 

561. Eefrigerating Plant, St. Louis, 3,000 pounds ice, 

pavilion , 30 00 

562. Miss C. L. Weber, St. Louis, stenographic work 

secretary, September 14 60 

563. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, express on fruit, horti- 

culture 29 90 

564. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, incidental expenses as 

secretary 21 08 

565. Matt Miller, David City, expenses commissioner. 

September 51 90 

566. W. M. Sutherland, St. Louis, enlarging theatre. . 50 00 

567. Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co., electric 

service, September 69 80 

568. Henry F. Kieser, Omaha, 2,000 engraved invita- 

tions, Nebraska Day 44 00 

569. Mrs. H. Hampton, five days' janitor service .... 6 66 

570. Pacific Express Co., express on fruit, horti- 

culture 19 11 

571. J. M. Russell, Lincoln, fruit, horticulture 117 00 

572. J. W. Scarborough, carpenter work, dairy ex- 

hibit 2 00 

573. Jno. G. Weber & Sons, Clayton, Mo., glass for 

honev exhibit 2 99 



TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 53 

Voucher. Amount. 

574. Florence Mumma, modeling dairy exhibit 4 00 

575. Simmons Hardware Co., St. Louis, hardware, 

pavilion 2 05 

576. J. Cady, labor on entry list, agriculture 18 75 

577. Will Maupin, Lincoln, 1,000 songs, "Nebraska' 1 22 00 

578. Union National Bank, Omaha, one book checks . . 1 50 

579. Mr. and Mrs. J. Hadkinson, services, October. 

horticulture 75 00 

580. L. D. Stilson, services, October, dairy. . : 75 00 

581. Wm. James, services, October, agriculture 75 00 

582. E. G. Hills, services, October, agriculture 75 00 

583. W. C. Mercer, services, October, lecturer 75 00 

584. B. Chessington, services, October, lecturer 75 00 

585. Mrs. M. Eastman, services, October, hostess. ... 75 00 

586. Mrs. Anderson, janitor service, pavilion 39 08 

587. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, services, secretary, October 125 00 

588. Official Photo. Co., St. Louis, moving picture 

service. September 29 to October 27 400 00 

589. Pacific Express Co., express on fruit, horticul- 

ture 47 29 

590. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, express on fruit, horticul- 

ture 59 94 

591. Jas. Walsh. Benson, expenses, October, superin- 

tendent of agriculture 4 15 

592. World's Fair Auto Co., service, Nebraska Day. . 15 00 

593. K. Holbrook. decorating pavilion, Nebraska Day 25 00 

594. Visayan Village Orchestra, service. Nebraska 

Day . . 25 00 

595. Edith L. Webster, service, October, education ... 75 00 

596. J. H. Taylor, Waterloo, collecting and shipping 

vegetables 22 60 

597. J. Cady, painting medals for agricultural ex- 

hibit 55 50 

598. Scarritt-Comstock Co., St. Louis, table, agricul- 

ture : 10 oo 

599. Corticelli Silk Co., St. Louis, ribbon, agricultural 

exhibit 2 00 

600. Peter Loech, Omaha, vegetables 1 50 

601. S. G. Adams Co., St. Louis, office supplies 3 25 

602. Erker Bros. Opt. Co., St. Louis, seven lantern 

slides 3 45 



. r >l REPORT OF NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

Voucher. Amount. 

603. Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co., electric serv- 
ice. October 65 00 

Peter Jansen. Jansen. expenses commissioner. 

October 37 35 

605. Selig Polyscope Co., Chicago, 1,465 feet positive 

film 219 7c 

606. Comfort Printing Co., St. Louis, printed supplies. 

pavilion -' 7" 

607. Whitehead \- Hoag Co., Newark, N. J., 2,000 

badges. Nebraska Pay 240 04 

608. H. <t. Shedd. Omaha, incidental expenses secre 

tary. October 75 40 

609. Model Dairy. St. Louis. 105 pounds butter, dairy 

exhibit 26 25 

610. M. P. Nielsen, modeling, dairy exhibit 50 00 

611. S. C. Bassett. Gibbon, expenses. October, super- 

intendent of dairy exhibit 60 00 

612. I. Pollard & Sons. Nehawka, fruit, horticulture. . 119 50 

613. Marshall Bros.. Arlington, fruit, horticulture. . . 64 ''■: 

614. J. B. Hungate. Weeping Water, fruit, horticul- 

ture 1 00 

615. Val Kieser. Lincoln, services, half October, hor- 

ticulture 30 00 

616. E. M. Pollard. Nehawka, express paid on fruit. . 2u 23 
'317. Frank P. Brown. Florence, fruit, horticulture. . . 2S 22 

618. Charles Ussang, labor, horticulture 12 00 

619. Omaha Box Co.. Omaha. 100 boxes, horticulture 13 00 

620. E. M. Pollard. Xekawka. expenses. October. 



superintendent of horticulture 40 2. r 

621. A. L. Fleshman. St. Louis, labor, horticulture. . . 7 20 

622. Matt Miller. David City, expenses commissioner. 

October 65 95 

623. Refrigerating Plant. St. Louis. 2.000 pounds ice. 

pavilion 10 00 

624. Miss C. L. Weber. St. Louis, stenographic work 

secretary. October 13 20 

625. A. Martin. Du Bois. fruit, horticulture 60 75 

626. R. Friend Commission Co., St. Louis, fruit, hor- 

ticulture 38 00 

627. G. W. Alexander. .Julian, fruit, horticulture. ... 22 B0 

628. W. S. Christy, Brownville. fruit, horticulture. . . 38 13 



TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 50 

Voucher. Amount. 

629. I. Pollard, Nehawka, services, half October. 

horticulture 28 00 

630. R. S. Williams, janitor, October, education and 

mine exhibit 10 00 

631. L. D. Stilson, service, November 1 to 3, and in- 

cidental expenses, dairy 10 05 

632. T. J. Moravec, Omaha, addressing Nebraska Day 

invitations 5 00 

033. G. W. Wattles, Omaha, money paid telephone and 
telegraph; postage Nebraska Day invitations. 

and freight on vegetables 97 54 

(534. J. T. Hillquist, Omaha, filling and mailing Ne- 
braska Day invitations 5 00 

635. E. Benj. Andrews, expense participation Ne- 

braska Day program 44 05 

636. G. W. Wattles, Omaha, expenses commissioner. 

October '. . 52 50 

637. Mrs. Rorer Catering Co., St. Louis, eighty-two 

luncheons, Nebraska Day 170 00 

638. Busch & Latta, St. Louis, repainting small rooms, 

pavilion 8 00 

639. Mrs. Wagner Thomas, Omaha, expenses partici- 

pation Nebraska Day exercises 33 60 

640. Robt. Cuscaden, Omaha, expenses participation 

Nebraska Day exercises 70 60 

641. Mr. and Mrs. J. Hadkinson, services, November, 

horticulture 75 00 

642. Wm. James, services, November, agriculture. . . . '75 00 

643. E. G. Hills, services, November, agriculture 75 00 

644. J. Cady, painting sign work, agriculture 26 25 

645. Edith L. Webster, services, November, education 75 00 

646. Mrs. M. L. Eastman, services, November, hostess 75 00 

647. W. C. Mercer, services, November, lecturer 75 00 

648. B. Chessington, services, November, lecturer. .. . 75 00 

649. Mrs. M. Anderson, janitor service, November. 

pavilion 41 50 

650. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, services secretary. No- 

vember 125 00 

651. Official Photo. Co., St. Louis, moving picture 

service, October 27 to December 1 in full 500 00 

652. Official Photo. Co., St. Louis, photographs of 

various exhibits with prints 24 00 



56 REPORT OF NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

Voucher. Amount. 

653. Official Photo. Co., St. Louis, three views educa- 

tional exhibit and prints 12 00 

654. S. G. Adams Co., St. Louis, office supplies 1 15 

655. Postal Tel. Co., St. Louis, services, September 

1 to December 1 7 99 

656. Keyes-Marshall Livery Co., St. Louis, carriages. 

Nebraska Day '. 56 00 

657. Louisiana Purchase Exposition, electric service. 

November, less rebates for season 32 17 

658. Canceled. 

659. J. H. Hadkinson, money expended for labor, hor- 

ticulture 13 25 

660. Mound City Ice & C. S. Co., St. Louis, storage and 

drayage of fruit 117 20 

661. Will J. Davies, services, horticulture exhibit .... 25 41 

662. Davies & Son, Brownville, fruit, horticulture 20 00 

663. E. H. Barbour, Lincoln, expenses, October, super- 

intendent of education 3 90 

664. R. S. Williams, janitor, November, education and 

mine exhibits 10 00 

665. Edith L. Webster, supplies bought for educa- 

tional exhibit 2 37 

666. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, money paid for freight and 

delivery of vegetables, and incidental expense 

as secretary 67 63 

667. Refrigerating Plant, St. Louis, 2,000 pounds ice. 

• pavilion 10 00 

668. Wm. James, St. Louis, oil and hardware bought. 

agriculture 5 60 

669. J. B. Chessington, postage, telegrams, etc 3 35 

670. Western Union Telegraph Co., St. Louis, service. 

October and November 4 92 

673. John G. Weber & Son, Clayton, Mo., oil and glass. 

pavilion 6 37 

672. Refrigerating Plant, St. Louis, ice for season, hor- 

ticulture 52 00 

673. W. C. Mercer, Lincoln, labor packing exhibits ... 15 00 

674. B. Chessington, Lincoln, labor packing exhibits. . 7 50 

675. Roy James, St. Louis, labor packing exhibits .... 4 00 

676. William James, St. Louis, labor packing exhibits. 

and extra service seven Sundavs 42 50 



TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 57 

Voucher. Amount. 

677. E. J. Hills, St. Louis, labor packing exhibits, and 

extra service seven Sundays 62 50 

678. John G. Weber & Son, St. Louis, materials for 

packing 5 95 

679. J. H. Hadkinson, St. Louis, boxes and storage 

of crates 19 00 

680. William James, St. Louis, money spent for pack- 

ing material 7 50 

681. Official Photographic Co., St. Louis, five views 

and one print, Nebraska exhibit 15 50 

682. J. E. Mendenhall, Fairbury, freight charges and 

pro rata share fund live stock exhibit 113 25 

683. S. McKelvie, Fairfield, freight charges and pro 

rata share fund, live stock exhibit 131 75 

681. W. A. Kirkpatrick, Lincoln, freight charges and 

pro rata share fund, live stock exhibit 125 30 

685. George Allen, Lexington, freight charges and pro 

rata share fund, live stock exhibit 107 60 

ti*6. Robert Taylor, Abbott, freight charges and pro 

rata, share fund, live stock exhibit 99 00 

687. H. C. Young, Lincoln, freight charges and pro 

rata share fund, live stock exhibit 42 06 

688. M. M. Stearns, freight charges and pro rata share 

fund, live stock exhibit 307 81 

689. H. C. Glissman, Omaha, freight charges and pro 

rata share fund, live stock exhibit 237 66 

690. G. W. Lindsay. Red Cloud, freight charges and 

pro rata share fund, live stock exhibit 210 52 

691. John L. Webster, Omaha, expense particpation 

Nebraska Day exercises 35 00 

692. C. L. Weber. St. Louis, stenographic services 

secretary. November and December 58 20 

693. H. G. Shedd, Lincoln, services as secretary, De- 

cember, 1904 .-. 125 00 

694. Edith L. Webster, Lincoln, labor packing educa- 

tional exhibit 35 00 

695. E. H. Barbour, Lincoln, balance compensation for 

services superintendent of education 150 00 

696. H. G. Shedd, Lincoln, money expended, necessary 

expenses entertainment Nebraska visitors, 
packing and shipping exhibits 72 93 



58 REPORT OP NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

Voucher. Amount. 

697. Thos. R. Kimball, Omaha, cost of services de- 

signing Nebraska installation 250 00 

698. Charles White, Aurora, express and coopage, 

poultry exhibit 6 81 

699. Mrs. C. O. Lowrey, Dunbar, express and coop- 

age, poultry exhibit 5 50 

700. J. N. Trough, Minden, express and coopage. 

poultry exhibit 14 30 

701. E. N. Crittenden, Lincoln, express and coopage. 

poultry exhibit 6 76 

702. H. H. Campbell, Osceola, express and coopage. 

poultry exhibit 30 43 

703. E. B. Day, Fremont, express and coopage, poultry 

exhibit ". 16 85 

704. E. S. Jennings, Lincoln, express and coopage. 

poultry exhibit 8 40 

705. T. L. Norval, Seward, express and coopage, poul- 

try exhibit and expense superintendent poultry 
exhibit 45 85 

706. O. E. Imm, Milford, poultry coopage and poul- 

try exhibit 11 90 

707. James Walsh, Benson, expenses in full, superin- 

tendent of agriculture, from April 30, 1903. to 
December 21, 1904 1,800 00 

708. Nebraska School for the Deaf, Omaha, half cost 

of sending deaf class to exposition, October. . 128 41 

709. A. E. Pope, St. Louis, half cost maintenance deaf 

class at exposition, October 147 60 

710. I. Pollard & Sons, Nehawka, expenses E. M. Pol- 

lard, superintendent of horticulture, November 

and December, 1904 116 20 

711. Maude Rennie Ord, Omaha, stenographic services 

commission 8 03 

712. F. B. Tipton, Seward, express and coopage, poul- 

try exhibit 22 28 

713. Matt Miller, expense as commissioner, December 4 45 

714. Thos. E. Snodgrass, Johnson, fifteen days' attend- 

ance, horticultural exhibit 30 00 

715. J. C. Robinson, Waterloo, collecting and shipping 

vegetables 21 70 



TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 59 

Voucher. Amount. 

716. Peter Jansen, Jansen, expense as commissioner. 

December 11 40 

717. State Journal, Lincoln, printing 2,500 copies Com- 

missioners' Report, printing, cuts, binding, etc. 436 50 

718. Maude R. Ord, Omaha, stenographic services for 

commission 7 30 

719. Social Economic Department, World's fair, 

twenty-four cases, freight and delivery, educa- 
tional" exhibit ". 120 00 

720. Jas. H. Canfield, New York, express paid on re- 

turn of portrait loaned 175 

721. E. H. Barbour, Lincoln, incidental expenses as 

superintendent of education 6 85 

722. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, incidental expenses and 

services in distributing exhibit material, pre- 
paring and mailing commission report, Jan- 
uary, 1905 100 00 

723. H. G. Shedd, Omaha, amount appropriated to 

cover outstanding claims against commission. . 200 00 

Total $45,309 70 



Awards of the International Jury to the 
Exhibits Entered by the Nebraska 
Commission, Louisiana Pur- 
chase Exposition 



AWARDS OF THE INTERNATIONAL JURY TO THE EX- 
HIBITS ENTERED BY THE NEBRASKA COM- 
MISSION, LOUISIANA PURCHASE 
EXPOSITION. 

SUMMARY. 
H. G. Shedd, Secretary, Nebraska State Commission. 

Grand Grand 

Department. Prize. Gold. Silver. Bronze. Total. Total. 

General 2 .. .. .. 2 

Agriculture : 

Grains 6 94 86 . 106 292 

Vegetables 3 17 1 21 

Honey . . 6 . . 6 

Dairy 1 . . . . i 

Horticulture 1 10 21 17 49 

Floriculture .. l l .. 2 

Education 1 9 4 5 19 

Mining .. 1 2 3 

Individuals 5 . . . . 5 

Totals 10 129 130 131 400 400 

6th' 
Premiums— 1st. 2d. 3d. 4th. 5th. to 10th. Total. 

Live stock 10 12 21 11 15 . . 69 

Poultry 1 3 7 4 3 9 27 

Specials . . . t g 

11 15 28 15 18 9 104 104 
Grand total 504 

GENERAL— 3. 

Grand Prize — 2. 

State of Nebraska, Nebraska pavilion and headquarters, Palace 
of Agriculture. 

State of Nebraska, moving picture exhibition of Nebraska re- 
sources and industries, Nebraska theatre. 

Special Gold Medal— 1. 
F. B. Griffin, operation of moving picture machine. 

(63) 



64 REPORT OP NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

AGRICULTURE— 323. 

James Walsh, Benson, Superintendent. 

Wm. James, Dorchester, Assistant Superintendent. 

E. G. Hills, Benson, Assistant Superintendent. 

Grand Prizes — 6. 
State of Nebraska, general agricultural installation. 
State of Nebraska, collective exhibit of corn, all varieties. 
State of Nebraska, collective exhibit of sheaf and threshed 

grains. 
State of Nebraska, collective exhibit of wild and tame grasses 

and forage crops. 
State of Nebraska, collective exhibit of seeds, all varieties. 
State of Nebraska, collective exhibit of twenty-six products 

from corn. 

Grains. 

Gold Medals— 96. 
State of Nebraska, general exhibit of four pyramids of corn. 
State of Nebraska, thirty-seven jars of shelled field sugar corn. 
Nebraska State University, collective exhibit of one hundred 

jars of threshed grains and seeds. 
Nebraska State University, Reed's yellow corn. 
Johnson County, collective exhibit of corn. 
Kearney, Business Men's Association, alfalfa. 
Bennington, Geo. Dierks, speltz, German oats, millet. 
Broken Bow, F. Mank, rye. threshed and sheaf. 
Du Bois, A. Martin, corn. 

Pawnee City, C. F. Nye, winter wheat, winter rye. 
Pleasant Hill, John Povlish, field peas, barley. 
Waterloo, J. C. Robinson, garden peas, collective exhibit of 

seeds, corn. 
Waterloo, S. Read, oats. 
Wilbur, Geo. Ross, fall rye, flax. 
Beaver City, E. A. Richards, corn. 
Omaha, H. Rossick, rye. 
Pawnee City, L. A. Stebbins, rye. 



TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 65 

De Soto, Smith & Son, corn. 

Franklin, Ethan Allan, orange cane seed, corn. 

Blair, J. H. Ballard, wheat threshed, milo maize, rye in the 

sheaf, oats. 
Bennington, Colonel Pratt, barley. 
Florence, Frank Brown, corn. 
Auburn, C. Brush, oats, rye, corn. 
Benson, A. Bleick, wheat. 
Osceola, S. Byers, rye, oats. 
Burwin, G. Coen, rye. 

Waterloo, C. Coy, peas,' collective exhibit of seeds, barley. 
Beatrice, Dole Floral Company, wheat, red clover. 
Auburn, F. Dysert, wheat. 
Holmersville, W. E. Ewing, wheat. 
Irvington, S. Fee, oats. 
Bennington, C. Grau, barley. 
C. Grau, Japanese buckwheat, corn, millet, oats, castor beans, 

flower castor beans. 
Franklin, A. B. Gregory, sorghum, red rice popcorn. 
Broken Bow, S. K. Haines, rye, oats, wheat, speltz. 
Abie, J. D. Hasik, macaroni wheat, sheaf and threshed, calico 

corn. 
Albion, C. Halchin, rye. 
Broken Bow, W. Hinman, rye. 
Dorchester, Wm. James, field corn, threshed buckwheat. 

threshed barley, winter wheat, millet, timothy, German 

coffee bean (soy), flax. 
Pleasant Hill, J. W. Lonik, German millet. 
Broken Bow, H. L. Loughran, barley, speltz, wheat. 
David City, J. McCracken, rye, wheat. 
Bennington, J. Miller, barley. 
Bennington, H. Schmidt, wheat. 

Waterloo, J. H. Taylor, white oats, popcorn shelled, corn. cane. 
Broken Bow, Ben Talbert, winter rye, winter wheat. 
Pawnee City, F. Vertiske, oats. 
Broken Bow, C. T. Wright, macaroni wheat. 



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Benson, James Walsh, design and installation of agricultural 
exhibits. 

Dorchester. William James, design and installation of agri- 
cultural exhibits. 

Silver Medals— 86. 

Dorchester, Jas. Quinn, wheat. 

Bennington, S. Rowher, wheat. 

Bennington, C. Rowher, wheat. 

Pleasant Hill, Frank Kenner, oats. 

Auburn. H. F. Ragge, wheat. 

Auburn, E. Snow, Auburn, fall rye. 

Auburn, A. Stadelard, wheat. 

Omaha, S. B. Stewart, seeds. 

Bennington, N. Schmidt, wheat. 

Elk City. W. Shumaker, clover. 

Elk City, J. Seltz, wheat. 

Elk City, J. W. Shumaker, oats. 

Pawnee City, H. O. Sheldon, oats. 

Broken Bow, C. S. Triplett, wheat. 

Osceola, X. Timm, barley. 

Broken Bow, W. J. Windnagie, speltz. 

Auburn, D. A. Watson, oats. 

Benson, Theodore Williams, corn. 

Benson, G. Walhgren, beans. 

Crete, J. Wild, speltz. 

Elkhorn Station, H. W T interburn, oats. 

Nemaha County, H. M. Wright, wheat. 

Broken Bow, N. Wright, oats. 

Broken Bow, John Zwonochek & Alksmit, wheat. 

Bennington, George Dierks, winter wheat, Sea Island spring 

wheat, barley. 
Ortello, H. Ashbaugh, rye. 
Auburn, W. Aue, oats. 
David City, C. M. Ball, oats. 
Auburn, F. Boulier, wheat. 
Benson, Albert Bleick. wheat. 



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Oreighton, J. M. Buckmaster, oats. 
Broken Bow, H. M. Cobble, wheat. 
Beaver City, E. A. Collins, corn. 
Auburn, G. Coulter, wheat. 
Auburn, A. Cooper, wheat. 
Pawnee, S. A. Carmichael, oats. 
Nemaha County, A. Crooker, wheat. 
Lincoln, W. Clyde Davis, popcorn. 
Wilbur, S. Davis, buckwheat. 
Pawnee City, J. Dingwell, wheat. 
Elk City, G. Drexel, wheat. 
Auburn, H. B. Erismann, rye. 
David City, E. Eschlerman, wheat. 
Osceola, N. Timm, wheat. 
Auburn, E. Fox, wheat. 
Pawnee City, F. Fry, oats. 
Elk City, H. Grau, rye. 
Falls City, W. H. Grush, clover. 
Crete, R. Hogue, corn. 
Broken Bow, W. K. Haines, spletz. 
Albion, C. Hutchin, rye. 
Albion, W. Haners, speltz. 
Oreighton, S. Keen, barley. 
Pawnee City, H. J. Kennedy, oats. 
Irvington, A. Knight, rye. 
Auburn, J. Kinghorn, wheat. 
Osceola, E. L. King, oats. 
Oreighton, R. Jewell, wheat. 
Lincoln, Wm. Jennings Bryan, rye. 
Ortello, M. Johnson, wheat. 
Elk City, H. Johnson, oats. 
Pawnee City, J. Layman, rye. 
Crete, James Leggett, corn. 
Millard D. Link, millet. 
Irvington, J. Lucken, barley. 
Auburn, W. Lunzman, wheat. 



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Atkinson. D. McLean, wheat. 

David City, F. Miller, wheat. 

Broken Bow, E. Miller, wheat. 

Broken Bow, C. H. Miller, wheat. 

Irvington, P. Nickles, oats. 

Albion, C. Marcol, wheat. 

Pawnee City, C. Montgomery, oats. 

Pleasant Hill, H. Moneypenny, bucket gourd seed. 

Elk City, F. Moulton, wheat. 

Nelson, W. S. Muinma, grass seed. 

Friend, B. F. Humma, timothy. 

Auburn, F. Meyers, oats. 

Elkhorn, C. C. Paul, beet. 

Irvington, F. Plant, oats. 

Irvington, W. Pilaret, rye. 

Pawnee City, W. M. Pyle, rye. 

Bennington, G. Chet, oats. 

Dorchester, Win. James, flax sheaf. 

Bronze Medals — 106. 
Broken Bow, S. K. Harris, flax. 
Ortello. H. Ashbaugh, rye. 

Blair, Aye Bros., Mammonth golden yellow corn. 
Sutton, C. Baass, corn. 
Bennington, J. W. Becker, corn. 
Fairbury, E. D. Brown, popcorn. 
Dorchester, David Buckingham, corn. 
Ong. A. E. Bures, red corn, white cap corn. 
Waverly, W. B. Cook, corn. 
Waterloo, Coy & Sons, corn. 
Pawnee City, C. F. Chase, corn. 
Irvington, C. A. Carlson, Iowa gold mine corn. 
Blair, C. Carter, calico corn. 
Nelson, S. B. Cloud, cherry popcorn. 
Elk City, P. Crink, corn. 
Auburn, W. Keough, wheat. 
Broken Bow. Jenkins & Hopkins, wheat. 



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Nebraska City, Mrs. B. Lewis, corn. 

Crete, T. T. Looniis, corn. 

Broken Bow, P. S. Lorance, rye. 

Fremont, J. M. Maher, corn. 

Broken Bow, G. W. McRoy, wheat. 

Elk City, J. McArdle, calico corn. 

Beaver City, M. E. McCormick, corn. 

Burwin, J. W. McRoy, wheat. 

Pawnee City, J. M. McKinley, wheat. 

Broken Bow, C. H. Miller, wheat. 

Beaver City, O. B. Morey, popcorn. 

Hooper, John Munnich, corn. 

Irvington, C. Noyce, corn. 

Creighton, G. B. Nicks, Russian oats. 

Millard, Jas. Nelson, oats. 

Bennington, E. Oft, red clover. 

Auburn, H. Oetyen, wheat. 

Washington, Henry Olsen, wheat. 

Albion, I. N. Ollen, oats. 

Albion, C. Ord, oats. 

Brock, Nels. Paulson, White Dent. 

Palmyra, C. A. Parker, calico corn. 

Bennington, P. Peters, oats. 

Talmage, G. H. Peterson, corn. 

Auburn, H. F. Peterson, wheat. 

Irvington, J. Peterson, corn. 

De Soto, H. Sletz, corn. 

Lincoln, Herbert Skinner, calico corn. 

Irvington, C. Steinert, wheat. 

Dorchester, Mrs. St. John, popcorn. 

Brownville, B. F. Skeen, corn. 

Lincoln, C. N. Syford, Yellow Dent corn. 

Ord, Spelts Grain Co., popcorn. 

College View, G. W. Shaver, Nebraska White Prize. 

Loup City, E. E. Tracy, Ninety Days' White Dent. 

Franklin, B. Travis, sweet corn. 



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Broken Bow, M. Vistrup, barley. 

Palmer, R. M. Wolcott, corn. 

De Soto, J. M. Wild, pearl corn. 

Bennington, C. Wilt, wheat. 

Bennington, I. Wilt, oats. 

Osceola, W. Welsh, rye. 

Bennington, S. Wilke, winter wheat. 

Brock, L. G. Yochum, corn. 

Auburn, H. Uinland, wheat. 

Bennington, Geo. Dierks, German oats. 

David City, C. W. Peck, wheat. 

Bennington, J. Procheron, German oats. 

Arapahoe, W T . D. Prutt, macaroni wheat. 

Bennington, C. Rohwar, wheat. 

Palmyra, Roy Reed, corn. 

Broken Bow, L. Rapp, wheat. 

Bennington, I. Rohwer, spring wheat. 

Florence, A. E. Roth, corn. 

Florence, A. C. Roth, corn. 

Beaver City, J. M. Royston, yellow flint corn. 

Dorchester, J. Scott, corn. 

Ortello, R. I. Saunders, winter wheat. 

Emerald, C. E. Schmale, corn. 

Benson, H. Schlen, corn. 

Crete, S. R. Foss, oats. 

Tecumseh, R. P. Faris, red white cap corn. 

Norfolk, A. Fishback, corn. 

Malcolm, A. M. Froomium, corn. 

Creighton, G. Goodwin, speltz. 

Grafton, A. M. Holmes, corn. 

Fair bury, M. C. Hurlbut, Nebraska White Prize corn. 

Red Cloud, John Harris, Nebraska White Prize corn. 

Irvington, M. Halls, corn. 

Tekamah, Jos. Hall, corn. 

Irvington, W. Heltman, wheat. 

Auburn, W. Hastie, wheat. 



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Bennett, C. F. Retzlaff, corn. 

Pawnee City, J. Klepper, wheat. 

Bennington, W. Cramer, oats. 

Beatrice, J. Cady, castor bean. 

Bennington, B. Cullock, calico corn. 

Auburn, S. L. Cunningham, oats. 

Arapahoe, W. d'Allemand, macaroni wheat. 

Bennington, J. Dierks, Black Russian sunflower. 

Wilbur, Edward A. Dusil, corn. 

Fairbury, E. Deval, Silver Mine corn. 

Auburn, O. P. Dovel, White Elephant corn. 

Beatrice, Dole Floral Company, English rye grass. 

Arlington, Fred Echtenkamp, Iowa Silver Mine corn. 

Elk City, A. H. Eiche, winter wheat. 

Fremont, Frank Emerson, White Southern corn. 

Graf, W. Ernst, Mammoth White Pearl corn. 

Vegetables — 21 . 

Gold Medals— 3. 

State of Nebraska, collective exhibit of vegetables. 
Waterloo, J. C. Robinson, pumpkins, squashes. 

Silver Medals— 17. 

Douglas County Agricultural Society, pumpkins, squashes, and 

citrons. 
Norfolk, American Sugar Beet Co., sugar beets. 
Ames, Standard Beet Sugar Co., sugar beets. 
Waterloo, C. Coy, vegetables. 
Elk City, Wm. Alexander, squash. 
Bennington, Geo. Dierks, squash. 
Bennington, Mrs. Ella Grau, squash. 
Elk City, Henry Grau, squash. 
Waterloo, J. C. Harrington, pumpkin. 
Dundee, H. C. Harter, squash. 
E. Omaha, Peter Loech, onions and potatoes. 
Florence, G. W. Long, citrons. 



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Waterloo, Roscoe Martin, squash. 
Elk City, J. F. McArdle, squash. 
Omaha, Theo. Runkers, pumpkins. 
Elk City, Wm. Shomacker, pumpkins. 
Millard, Sam Willms, vegetables. 

Bronze Medals — 1. 
Omaha. Wm. Boone, squash. 

Honey. 

Silver— 6. 
State of Nebraska, collective exhibit of honey. 
Dorchester, William James, comb and granulated honey. 
York, L. D. Stilson, comb and granulated honey. 
Friend, Mrs. E. Whitcomb, design made from unrefined bees- 
wax. 

DAIRY— 1. 

S. C. Bassett, Gibbon, Superintendent. 

A. L. Haecker, Lincoln, Assistant Superintendent. 

L. D. Stilson, York. Assistant Superintendent. 

Gold Medal— 1. 
State of Nebraska, dairy exhibit. 

HORTICULTURE— 53. 

E. M. Pollard, Nehawka, Superintendent. 

Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hadkinson, Omaha. Assistant Superin- 
tendents. 

Grand Prize — 1. 

State of Nebraska, collective exhibit of fruits. 

Gold Medals— 12. 
Cass County, collective exhibit of apples and pears. 
Lancaster County, collective exhibit of fruit. 
Nemaha County, collective exhibit of fruit. 
Julian, G. W. Alexander & Co., exhibit of fruit. 
Crete, Crete Nurseries, exhibit of fruit. 
Lincoln, C. H. Frey, exhibit of fruit. 
Arlington, Marshall Brothers, exhibit of fruit. 



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Nehawka, I. Pollard & Son, apples. 
Lincoln, J. M. Kussell & Co., fruit. 
Humboldt, J. A. Shrayer, peaches. 

Xehawka, E. M. Pollard, design and installation of exhibits. 
Omaha, Mrs. J. H. Hadkinson, design and installation of ex- 
hibits. 

Silver Medals— 21. 

Lincoln County, collective exhibit of fruit. 

Pawnee County, collective exhibit of fruit. 

Richardson Countj, collective exhibit of fruit. 

Washington county, collective exhibit of fruit. 

Saline County, collective exhibit of apples and pears. 

Valley County, collective exhibit of apples and cherries. 

Ord, W. A. Anderson, cherries. 

Florence, J. P. Brown, apples. 

Brownville, John Furnas, apples. 

Peru, R. W. Hesseltine, fruit. 

Weeping Water, J. N. Hungate, peaches. 

Southerland, D. Hunter, apples. 

Johnson, G. S. Christie, fruit. 

Johnson, Geo. Dominy, fruit. 

Du Bois, Arnold Martin, fruit. 

Blair, W. M. McCormick, fruit. 

Fort Calhoun, Pleasant View Fruit Farm, fruit. 

Fort Calhoun, Henry Rix, raspberries and currants. 

Du Bois, W. H. Shaylor, fruit. 

Shubert, J. F. Shubert, apples. 

Bronze Medals — 17. 
Douglas County, collective exhibit of apples. 
Julian, G. W. Alexander, raspberries. 
Du Bois, J. M. Allen, apples. 
Auburn, A. E. Braton, pears. 
Brock, H. A. Brown & Son, pears. 
Florence, Glen Buell, apples. 
Cheney, C. B. Camp, grapes. 
Florence, A. C. Horte, apples. 



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Humboldt, Maloney Fruit Farm, strawberries. 

Blair, A. W. Clark, apricots. 

Brownville, John Davies, pears. 

Aurora, J. R. Davidson, plums. 

Johnson, B. F. Frendenburg, apples. 

Du Bois, Mrs. T. Poland, apples. 

Blair, F. M. Smith, blackberries. 

Nehawka, H. P. Sturn, pears. 

Pawnee City, N. S. Take, apples and pears. 

Nehawka. B. Wolph, peaches. 

FLORICULTURE— 2. 

Gold Medal— 1. 
Lincoln, E. H. Barbour, collective exhibit of cannas. 

Silver Medal — 1. 
West Point, J. F. Rosenfield, cut peonies. 

EDUCATION.— 19. 

E. H. Barbour, Lincoln, Superintendent. 

Edith L. Webster, Lincoln, Assistant Superintendent. 

Grand Prize — 1. 
State of Nebraska, exhibit of School for the Deaf, Omaha. 

Gold Medals— 9. 
State of Nebraska, general educational installation. 
State of Nebraska, exhibit State Federation of Women's Clubs. 
Omaha, Creighton Medical College, medical exhibit. 
Omaha, State School for the Deaf, class exhibits. 
Omaha, Board of Education collective exhibit. 
Omaha, Board of Education, high school manual training ex 

hibit. 
Lincoln, State University, collective exhibit. 
Lincoln, Edith L. Webster, special designs and installation. 
State Library, exhibit of traveling libraries. 



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Silver Medals — 4. 
Lincoln, Board of Education, grade work. 
Omaha, Board of Education, grade work exhibit. 
Beatrice, Board of Education, grade work exhibit. 
College View, Union College, collective exhibit. 

Bronze Medals — 5. 
Omaha, Mrs. John Briggs. 
Peru, State Normal School, collective exhibit. 
Plattsmouth, Board of Education, collective exhibit. 
Lincoln, E. H. Barbour, windmill and irrigation exhibit. 
Nebraska City, State School for the Blind, class exhibits. 

MINING AND METALLURGY— 3. 
E. H. Barbour, Lincoln, Superintendent. 
Silver Medal— 1. 
State of Nebraska, collective exhibit of soils, minerals, building- 
materials. 

Bronze Medals — 2. 

State of Nebraska, soils and minerals. 

Lincoln, State University, photographs illustrating mineral 
resources. 

LIVE STOCK AND POULTRY— 104. 

Direction of officers of Nebraska Live Stock and Poultry Ass'n. 
Live Stock — 69. 

Standard Bred Trotters — L. C. Kinney. Bushnell, 2 third, 2 
fourth and 2 fifth premiums. 

Galloway Cattle— G. W. Lindsey, Red Cloud. 1 first and 2 
second premiums. 

Poland-China Swine— P. & C. Dawson, Endicott, 2 fifth 
premiums; S. M. McKelvie, Fairfield, 3 third premiums. 

Duroc-Jerseys — H. B. Louden & Son, Clay Center, 1 third pre 
miuni; W. A. Kirkpatrick, Lincoln, 1 third and 1 fifth pre- 
miums; J. E. Mendenhall & Son, Fairbury, 2 first, 3 third 
and 1 fourth premiums; Chas. Van Patten, Sutton, 1 second 



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premium; Gilbert Van Patten, Sutton, 1 fourth and 1 fifth 

premiums. 
Essex Swine — H. W. Canzler, Pleasant Dale, 2 first, 3 second. 

7 third, 3 fourth and 6 fifth premiums. 
Shropshire and Southdown Sheep — Geo. Allen, Lexington, 5 

first, 4 second, 9 third and 2 fourth premiums ; Robt. Taylor. 

Abbott, 2 second, 1 third, 1 fourth and 3 fifth premiums. 

Poultry — 35. 
Single Comb Buff Orpingtons — H. H. Campbell, Osceola, cock, 

1 third and 1 seventh prize ; hen, 1 seventh ; cockerel, 1 third ; 

pullet, 1 third and 1 fifth prizes; pen, 1 second prize; E. S. 

Jennings, Lincoln, cockerel, 1 seventh prize. 
Buff Wyandottes — E. B. Day, Fremont; cock, 1 sixth; hen. 1 

second. 
Partridge Wyandottes — E. M. Crittenden, Lincoln, cockerel, 1 

second and 1 eighth; pullet, 1 eighth prize. 
White Wyandottes — F. B. Tipton, Seward; cockerel, 1 third 

prize ; pullet, 1 fourth prize, and two special |10 prizes. 
Barred Plymouth Rocks — T. L. Norval, Seward, cockerel, 1 

sixth prize; hen, 1 fifth prize; pullet, 1 third and 1 tenth 

prize; hen, 1 fifth and 1 ninth prize; and six special prizes. 
Rose Comb Brown Leghorns — J. H. Trough, Minden, cockerel. 

1 third and 1 fourth prize ; pullet, 1 fourth prize ; hen, 1 third 

and 1 fourth prize. 

Note — The above winners of premiums at the Louisiana 
Purchase Exposition were also winners of first or second pre- 
miums at the Nebraska state fair, and as such were transported 
without cost to the individual exhibitors, from Lincoln to the 
exposition and return, by the Nebraska State Commission. 



House Roll No. 23 1 



Twenty-eighth Session of the Nebraska Legislature 



HOUSE ROLL NO. 231. 

A Bill 
For an act to provide for the participation by the state of 
Nebraska in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition to be held 
in the city of St. Louis, state of Missouri, in the year of 
1904; for the appointment of a state board of commission 
ers by the governor and to authorize the governor to fill 
any vacancy occurring among said state commissioners; 
to provide for a notification by the governor; to provide 
for the reimbursement of each member of said board for 
hotel, traveling and incidental expenses; to provide for a 
state exhibit at said exposition ; to define the duties of the 
board of commissioners in relation thereto, for the pay 
ment of salaries to employees, and for the appropriation 
of |35,000; to provide that said state board of commis 
sioners shall have control of the expenditure of said ap 
propriation; to provide for the organization of the state 
board of commissioners ; to provide for what purposes the 
said appropriation shall be expended; to provide for the 
presentation, auditing, approval and payment of claims 
arising from the expenditure of said board; to fix the 
place where said board of commissioners shall conduct 
their business; to provide for a record of their acts, doings 
and expenditures; to provide for the sale of the property 
after the close of the exposition ; to protect the state con- 
tingent liability. 

Whereas, The Louisiana Purchase Exposition will be held 
in the city of St. Louis, in the state of Missouri, in the year 
1904; it will exhibit the agriculture, arts, industries and edu 
cation of the various states, and of the government of the 
United States; of the nations in North and South America; of 
the states, nations, islands and countries in Europe and in the 
eastern hemisphere, thus creating and consummating an ex 
hibition, national, international, continental and universal, 
upon a scale greater than hitherto undertaken, and with a 
resource never before equalled; and 

Whereas, This universal exposition was conceived primarily 

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to celebrate the purchase of Louisiana from Napoleon the 
First, made one hundred years ago, when Nebraska was un- 
developed, unsettled and unknown; 

Whereas, Nebraska is one of the twelve states organized out 
of this grant of the French emperor and contains, some of the 
richest and choicest commonwealth in the entire domain; and 

Whereas, The congress of the United States has contributed 
15,000,000 to the corporation of the Louisiana Purchase Ex- 
position, and in addition appropriated $1,308,000 to meet the 
cost of making a national exhibit and erecting buildings in 
which to install and house the same ; the legislature of Kansas 
has appropriated f 75,000 ; of Iowa $125,000 ; of Illinois $250,- 
000; a bill appropriating $50,000 has been recommended for 
passage in the legislature of South Dakota; these appropria- 
tions reflect the views of adjoining and neighboring states as 
to the sums necessary to make a state exhibit at this exposi- 
tion; and 

Whereas, A State World's Fair Commission, of which Hon. 
Gurdon W. Wattles was chairman, filed, January 16, 1903, a 
report with the governor in which is this recommendation: 
-It is the opinion of this commission that this state should 
be properly represented at this great exposition. Nebraska is, 
we believe, the richest part of the territory of the Louisiana 
Purchase and within its borders offers homes and investments 
to those now located in less favored communities. To lose the 
opportunities of advertising the rich resources of this state 
by a proper exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition 
would be unwise and unprofitable." "We believe that an 
adequate representation of the resources of this state can be 
made at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition with an appropria- 
tion of $50,000 for preparing, installing and maintaining this 
exhibit, and that a state building which will meet all the re- 
quirements and necessities of the inhabitants of Nebraska can 
be erected and maintained at an additional expense of $25.- 
000;"' and 

Whereas, The location of said exposition in the city of St. 



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Louis, in the state of Missouri, affords the people of Nebraska 
ample opportunity to exhibit to the world their products and 
their resources in the production of grain, grass, fruit, live 
stock, dairying, alfalfa and other forage plants; beet-sugar 
and the possibilities of western irrigation ; their manufacturing 
enterprises and transportation facilities; the growth of their 
towns, cities, commercial and financial institutions; their 
churches, schools, colleges, public charities and corrections ; 
the proximity of St. Louis will permit great numbers of Ne- 
braska people to visit the exposition whence, through a bureau 
of information and headquarters for residents of the state, 
much good may result to this commonwealth; therefore, 

Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska: 

Section 1. That the state of Nebraska take part in the 
Louisiana Purchase Exposition to be held in St. Louis, in the 
state of Missouri, in 1904, as hereinafter provided. 

Section 2. That the governor of the state of Nebraska be, 
and is hereby authorized and directed to appoint a non-par- 
tisan state board of commissioners of three members, for the 
purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act. That the 
governor is empowered to fill any vacancy which may occur in 
the said board of commissioners. 

Section 3. That each member of said board of commission- 
ers appointed by the governor as provided in section 2 hereof 
shall receive no salary or other compensation for service 
rendered as such commissioner; but each member thereof 
shall be reimbursed for hotel, traveling and incidental ex- 
penses incurred while discharging the duties created in this act. 

Section 4. That for the purpose of enabling the state of 
Nebraska to make a proper state exhibit in said Louisiana 
Purchase Exposition; to properly plan, advertise, carry on. 
develop, and install and complete the said state exhibit in said 
exposition, and to provide for the comfort of Nebraska people 
attending the same and for the purpose of paying the expense 
stipulated in section 3 hereof, of each of the members of said 
board appointed by the governor; and to pay for the salaries 



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of all superintendents, managers, and employees, which in the 
opinion of said board may be necessary to carry out the pur- 
poses of this act, or sum of f 35,000 be, and the same is hereby 
appropriated from the state treasury out of any fund not 
otherwise appropriated. 

Section 5. That said board of state commissioners ap- 
pointed by the governor as herein provided shall act in con- 
junction with the board of directors of the corporations, known 
as the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, but the money hereby 
appropriated as provided herein, shall be under the control 
and management of said state board appointed by the governor. 

Section 6. It shall be the duty of said board of commission- 
ers as appointed by the governor, on being notified by the gov- 
ernor of their appointment, to meet at the governor's office in 
the city of Lincoln and receive from the governor the cer- 
tificates of appointment., and organize by the election of a 
president, vice-president, and secretary and in case the secre- 
tary is a member of the board of provisions of section 3 of this 
act shall not estop him from receiving a salary as such secre- 
tary. 

Section 7. The said sum of money or so much thereof as 
may be necessary, shall be and become available for the pur- 
pose of carrying out the provisions of this act. the making of 
said state exhibit, providing for the comfort of Nebraska peo- 
ple attending the exposition and all other things necessary to 
properly plan, advertise, carry on, develop, install a complete 
state exhibit from and after the taking effect of this act. 
as herein provided, that is to say, that when said state board, 
or a majority thereof, shall duly certify to the governor of the 
state, and attach to such certificates an itemized statement on a 
uniform voucher atested by the president and secretary of said 
board, and approved by the governor in writing, the auditor 
of public accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw 
his warrant on the state treasurer to the order of the person 
entitled thereto, as shown by the itemized statement on the 
uniform voucher. 



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Section 8. The place of business of said board of commis- 
sioners after its organization, shall be selected by the board, 
in the state of Nebraska, in suitable rooms provided by the 
state board, and it shall be the duty of said board to keep a 
complete and detailed record open to public inspection at all 
times of each and every act respecting the expenditure of said 
money, and an itemized statement of all expenses and indebted- 
ness incurred, for what and with whom and the amount thereof. 
It shall also be the duty of said board, by its president and 
secretary, to make a report to the governor every sixty days in 
writing, of the acts and doings of said board, as herein pro- 
vided. 

Section 9. That within sixty days after the close of the 
said exposition, it shall be the duty of the commissioner of 
public lands and buildings, and he is hereby authorized to 
advertise, and sell at a public auction, for cash in hand, of a 
singular, the property acquired by said board of state com 
missioners, to account for the same to the governor and when 
approved by him to pay the sum of money so received from 
said sale to the state treasurer to the credit of the state gen- 
eral fund. 

Section 10. No provision of this act shall be deemed a war- 
rant for creating a liability against the state in excess of the 
sum herein appropriated. 

J. H. Mockett, Jr., 
Speaker of House of Representatives. 

Attest: 

John Wall, 

Chief Clerk of House of Representatives. 

Edmund G. McGilton, 



President of Senate. 



Attest : 

A. R. Eeim, 

Secretary of Senate. 
Approved April 8, 1903. 



John H. Mickey. 
Governor 



Congratulatory Letters 



CONGRATULATORY LETTERS. 



I desire to congratulate the Nebraska State Commission for 
the success that has attended their effort to present Nebraska 
in acceptable form at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The 
appropriation obtained for this purpose was so meagre when 
compared with the large appropriations made by other states 
that I was fearful that the state would suffer by the contrast. 
Except for social purposes and for the accommodation of a 
few favored ones the erection and maintenance of state build- 
ings at these great expositions is not desirable. 

With the limited means at the disposal of the commission. 
Nebraska made a unique exhibition. Her great products were 
well exhibited in the agricultural building and the little 
theatre with its exhibition of moving pictures, expressive of 
life in Nebraska, was a very captivating affair, satisfactorily 
evidenced by the fact that every seat was filled and there was 
standing room only at each one of the numerous performances 
during each day. 

It is also a most satisfactory result that so many awards 
were given to Nebraska and the fact that the commission has 
kept itself strictly within the proper lines and has wasted no 
money and will have no deficiency to be accounted for is also a 
subject matter for congratulation. 
Truly yours, 

(Signed) Charles F. Manderson, 

Gen. Solicitor, B. & M. R. R.. 

Omaha. Neb. 



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88 REPORT OF NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

I want to say that I was very much interested in the exhibit 
which you are making in the moving pictures and take pleasure 
in commending your description of the resources of the state. 
I went through the agricultural building one afternoon and 
it is safe to say that ten times as much interest was manifested 
in the Nebraska exhibit as in any other exhibit in the building. 
You have hit upon a unique and successful scheme, and Ne- 
braska will largely benefit by the exhibit there. 
Very truly yours, 

(Signed) W .J. Bryan, 

Editor and Proprietor The Commoner, 

Lincoln, Neb. 



In my opinion the state of Nebraska owes the commission a 
debt of gratitude for the magnificent display you succeeded in 
making at the exposition with the meagre appropriation at 
your disposal. I speak with reference to the agricultural ex- 
hibit only since I did not see the other exhibits. The arrange- 
ment of the agricultural display was artistic and tasteful. 
The hearty and cordial welcome that visitors received is of 
itself worthy of especial mention and the moving picture 
theatre was the keystone of the arch. Whoever originated that 
idea is entitled to special mention. It was the best drawing 
card in the agricultural building and did more to show the 
people of other states the actual conditions and surroundings 
of farming in Nebraska than anything else that could have 
been devised. While Nebraska had no state building, in my 
judgment the small amount of money as handled by the Com- 
mission was a better advertisement to the state than if four 
times as much had been spent in a state building. 
Yours truly, 

(Signed) Chas. B. Letton, 
Commissioner, Nebraska Supreme Court, 

Fairburv, Neb. 



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After -a recent trip to the exposition, I desire to commend 
the work of the Nebraska Commission. 

' It seems to me that the Nebraska exhibits were certainly in 
all respects creditable to the state, and that the commission 
is to be congratulated upon the general interest shown in and 
about the space allotted for the different Nebraska exhibits. 
Yours truly, 

(Signed) G. W. Holdrege. 

General Manager C, B. & Q. R, R., 

Omaha, Neb. 



The memory of my visit to the exposition at a recent date 
has been made so pleasant by association with the Nebraska 
exhibit that I feel it is due you and your co-workers that my 
appreciation should be acknowledged. I do not think it is 
prejudice which leads me to pronounce it one of the most in- 
teresting exhibits on the exposition grounds. It cannot fail to 
be of lasting benefit in setting forth very interestingly the 
resources and developments of our beloved state. As one of 
the citizens interested in this exhibit, as indeed every citizen 
is, I desire to thank the Commission and express my personal 
gratitude. 

Sincerely yours, 

(Signed) W. C. Aylsworth. 

Chancellor, Cotner University. 

Bethanv . Neb. 



The hour that I spent at the Nebraska exhibit at the World's 
fair was most instructive, and your free exhibition of pictures 
of Nebraska social and industrial life has been greatly ap- 
preciated. 

Nebraska has gained more than in any other way by having 
people visit the state. Next to a visit to the state is the photo- 



90 REPORT OF NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

graphic exhibition that you make hourly to visitors from ail 
parts of the United States. 

There is likewise an air of hospitality about the exhibit 
which is making an excellent impression. It is difficult to 
know what causes are the most effective in building up. but 
the general verdict, I believe, is that your exhibit, in its way, 
has done a great deal of good. My attention was originally 
attracted to this exhibit by the generous comments of the St. 
Louis daily papers. 

Yours truly, 

(Signed) L. W. Wakeley. 

Gen. Pass. Agt, B. & M. R. R.. 

Omaha, Neb. 



While the Nebraska exhibits were not as elaborate or pre- 
tentious as those of many other states they were, in my opin- 
ion, most effective, and have stimulated much interest on the 
part of visitors to the fair in the resources of our state. The 
moving picture feature of the Nebraska exhibit was notably 
interesting, and on each of the several occasions when I 
visited the Nebraska headquarters the pictures were being 
viewed by a large and evidently deeply interested audience. 
Yours truly, 

(Signed) Gerrit Fort, 

Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt., Union Pacific R. R. Co.. 

Omaha, Neb. 



I can only repeat the universal expression of everyone who 
visited the exposition and made examination of the details of 
exhibits from the standpoint of broad criticism, to the effect 
that the Nebraska exhibit was a most creditable one from any 
standpoint of comparison with any other state, and that the 
value of the advertising of its resources which the state re 
ceived in proportion to the cost of the exhibit, exceeded that 
of anv exhibit on the grounds. If I am rightly informed, the 



TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 91 

cost of the exhibit of the state of Nebraska was a minimum as 
compared with all other states, while the exhibit itself was 
equal to the best. 

Yours truly, 

(Signed) Geo. F. Bid well, 

Mgr. Chicago & North Western K. R.. 

Omaha, Neb. 



When I was in St. Louis, I was very much pleased with the 
exhibit of Nebraska products at the World's fair. 

It is certainly a very creditable exhibit of the resources of 
the state, and was installed in a manner that attracted much 
attention. 

I desire to particularly commend the exhibition of moving 
pictures, and I believe that there was more comment made by 
visitors on the Nebraska exhibit, than the exhibit of any other 
state made in the agricultural building. This favorable com 
ment was largely due to the moving pictures. 

The exhibit as a whole is very satisfactory and the Com- 
mission is entitled to great credit for their work. 
Very truly yours, 

(Signed) C. H. Morrill, 

President Lincoln Land Co., 

Lincoln, Neb. 



The Nebraska exhibit at St. Louis is a masterly credit to 
the state. Its excellence is far out of proportion to its cost. 
The matter is admirably chosen and the installation betrays at 
every point combined science, taste and skill. In installation 
our exhibit is second to that of no state and superior to all or 
nearly all. The exhibit will call attention to Nebraska and 
Nebraskans beyond anything of the kind heretofore presented. 
(Signed) E. Benj. Andrews. 

Chancellor, The Universitv of Nebraska. 



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It has been my privilege to visit the exhibits of Nebraska at 
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The educational exhibit 
was comprehensive, interesting and instructive. When I 
learned the small amount of money expended upon it, it 
seemed to me the best exhibit, on the relative basis of expendi- 
ture, at the Exposition. 

The agricultural exhibit was striking and true to the prin- 
ciple of the exposition, to show processes and life. My friends 
from my present state were telling how attractive the Ne- 
braska exhibit was as contrasted with that of our and other 
states. It seems to me that great credit is to be given to the 
commissioners and persons in charge of the Nebraska exhibits 
for bringing out so fully the merits of the state. 

I cannot conclude without saying that the personnel of the 
attendants and their skill and hospitality, are no small factor 
in the success of the enterprises. 

(Signed) Geo. E. MacLean, 
President, The State University of Iowa, 

Iowa City, Iowa. 



The exhibits that I had the pleasure of examining were most 
excellent and displayed great credit on the commission and 
all who had to do with them in the general make up of the dis 
play, and the untiring attention of all the employes connected 
with the exhibits. The state must receive great good from the 
advertisement, the result of this display, I think far greater 
than from any display made at any former exposition. 
Very truly yours, 

(Signed) J. B. Dinsmore, 

Sutton Nat'l Bank, Sutton. Neb. 



I cannot refrain from expressing to you something of the 
great pleasure I experienced from my visit to your exhibit 
illustrating the agricultural development of Nebraska. The 



TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 93 

beautiful and artistic arrangement of the products of the state 
in your booth, especially of the corn and native grasses sets 
forth in the most striking manner the great agricultural re- 
sources of Nebraska and at the same time bears eloquent testi- 
mony to your ingenuity and skill. The excellence of the grain 
exhibit would certainly seem to bear out the claim of your 
state to be the "grain seed producer" for the United States. 
I heartily congratulate you upon your success. 
Very sincerely, 

(Signed) Estelle Bice, 

Supt. of Indian Schools, 
Department of the Interior, Washington. 



While visiting the "big fair" we were pleased with the novel 
and instructive advertising our state was receiving by means 
of the moving picture exhibit. We can imagine no other way 
in which, with an expenditure of so little money, Nebraska 
and its resources could be so well and entertainingly shown, 
and were gratified to hear many persons from other states and 
countries express themselves as delighted with Nebraska's 
showing at the fair. 

Sincerely yours, 

(Signed) J. H. Ager, 

W. S. MORLAN, 

J. W. Deweese, 
B. & M. B. B., Lincoln, Neb. 



It was my pleasure to visit the Nebraska exhibit in the 
agricultural building yesterday, and I can not let the occasion 
pass without saying a complimentary word or two concerning 
the method which you have taken to set forth the wonderful 
resources of Nebraska. The idea of using moving pictures for 
this purpose is unique and most attractive. If your audiences 



94 REPORT OF NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

continue to be as large as that which completely filled the little 
auditorium while I was present, before the season is over 
Nebraska's strong points will have been shown in a most 
impressive way to a great many thousand people. For your- 
self and for the Nebraska Commission, accept my congratula- 
tions, and permit me to wish you all success in your work 
throughout this fair season. 

Very sincerely yours, 

(Signed) D. M. Ellis, 

Director of Educational Exhibit, State of of New York. 



I desire to congratulate the Nebraska Commission and its 
secretary on the showing you have made for our state at the 
World's fair on a very limited allowance. The Nebraska ex 
hibits certainly did the state great credit. 
Very cordially yours, 

(Signed) J. W. Crabtree, 

President Nebraska State Normal School, 

Peru. Neb. 



I want to say that I was specially interested in our exhibit 
at the fair, and after visiting the exhibits of the various states. 
I was very much impressed with the superior exhibit from 
Nebraska. It was the universal opinion, I think, of the aver- 
age visitor to the fair that Nebraska excelled all other states 
in her exhibit and method of presenting the advantages of 
this state to the people. The idea of throwing upon the screen 
or canvas the moving pictures illustrating the development 
and growth of the Nebraska farms and their products, and the 
illustration of the industry of cattle and horse raising in this 
state was unique as well as a most attractive and impressive 
method of presenting Nebraska's advantages. In my judg 
ment, Nebraska never had so attractive and satisfactory an 
exhibit in any of the preceding fairs as the one presented at 



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the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. It was to me a great 
personal pride to visit our exhibit and to direct strangers to it, 
as one of the attractive and impressive features of the fair. 
I overheard many strangers, as they thronged the agricultural 
building, in discussing the exhibits of the various states, ex- 
press their satisfaction in visiting our exhibit and in declaring 
it to be the best exhibit in the building. Much of the attrac- 
tiveness of this exhibit and its usefulness is due to the genial 
and courteous gentlemen who had charge of it on the grounds, 
and their painstaking and complete analysis and explanation 
of the moving pictures as they were thrown upon the screen. 
Yours truly, 

(Signed) A. K, Talbot, 
Head Consul, Modern Woodmen of America, 

Lincoln, Neb. 



In my opinion, the money appropriated by the legislature 
for an exhibit of the resources of Nebraska at the Louisiana 
Purchase Exposition has been most judiciously and profitably 
spent. From a comparatively small appropriation the state 
seems to have secured a greater amount of profitable adver- 
tising than any state in the Union. The moving picture device 
for illustrating the industrial life of the state was a very 
happy idea. Both from observation and report, I am led to 
believe that the Nebraska exhibit drew greater crowds and 
aroused more interest than any other exhibit in the great 
agricultural hall. In my opinion, the commissioners are en- 
titled to unstinted commendation for the very satisfactory 
and successful showing they have made in behalf of the state. 
Very truly yours, 

(Signed) Charles Weston, 

Auditor of Public Accounts, 

Lincoln, Neb. 



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I consider the Nebraska exhibit the most attractive and the 
best medium of advertising the state of any in the agricultural 
building. As one Nebraskan who has seen your exhibit I wish 
to say that I am more than delighted with it. 
Very truly yours, 

(Signed) Irving G. B aright, 

Supreme Prest.. Royal Achates, 

Omaha, Neb. 



We beg to acknowledge receipt of the hand book of Ne- 
braska, which we have just received. The information therein 
is certainly very valuable and certainly speaks well for the 
state. We have always been ready to preach Nebraska broad 
cast and never felt any firmer in Nebraska's future than we 
do today. 

Yours truly, 

(Signed) Beatrice Creamery Co., 

A. E. Wilkenson, Mgr., 

Lincoln, Neb. 



The use of the biograph in exemplifying typical farm scenes 
in Nebraska is as unique as it is effective. 

Strolling past the Nebraska agricultural exhibit and causu- 
ally noting general effects only, I was attracted by the an- 
nouncement of "moving pictures" as applied to a state's in- 
dustrial exhibit. I found the lecture hall crowded, the lecture 
and pictures exceedingly interesting, and the audience thor- 
oughly appreciative. 

Where there is so much to see only the unusual and spec- 
tacular attract. The Nebraska commissioners understood the 
disposition of an exposition crowd. Having a valuable ex- 



TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 97 

Mbit, the commissioners know how to arrest attention and to 
impart lasting impressions. 

Congratulating the commissioners upon their fine display 
and up-to-date methods in reaching the public eye, I am, 
Yours truly, 

(Signed) F. B. Gould. 
Prest., Whitcomb College. Tacoma. Washington. 



While visiting the St. Louis Exosition during the summer 
I was particularly pleased with the excellent school exhibit 
presented by your state. I am desirous of securing a copy of 
the circulars used in presenting the matter of the school ex- 
hibit to your county superintendents and teachers. We have 
upon us here the problem of organizing an educational exhibit 
for the Lewis and Clark Exposition, and we fully realize the 
helpfulness which our older states may be to us in this matter. 
(Signed) K. F. Robinson, 

County Superintendent. Portland, Ore. 



I am especially very much obliged for the little handbook 
which contains a great deal of very valuable and interesting 
information. This is another hit. You Nebraska fellows have 
actually done more, it seems to me, with the small amount of 
money at your disposal than the states where the funds were 
abundant. After all it is brains which count rather than 
money. I noticed this many years ago in New Orleans, where 
the amount of money at Governor Furnas's disposal was very 
small indeed, but he managed to use it in such a way that the 
people all over the grounds were talking about the Nebraskans. 
That, of course, is the purpose of an exhibit. The actual ex- 
hibits do not count for as much as the way in which they are 
put before the people. Apparently the St. Louis Exposition 
is doing for Nebraska just what the New Orleans exhibit of 



98 REPORT OF NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

nearly twenty years ago did. I found that in New Orleans, 
when I wore the Nebraska badge, wherever I went the people 
looked and smiled and said, "You are one of those Nebraska 
fellows, I see." Everybody knew that the Nebraska men were 
vigorous and pushing and interesting. I congratulate the Com 
mission. 

Very truly yours, 

(Signed) Charles E. Bessey, 
Dean Industrial College, University of Nebraska, 

Lincoln. Neb. 



As one of the exhibitors at the World's fair I want to write 
and tell you that I believe the Nebraska exhibits at the World's 
fair were the most effective of any state's exhibits. The ex- 
hibiting at any fair is simply a form of advertising, and I be- 
lieve that Nebraska's novel way of impressing on the minds of 
those who saw the exhibit, was not excelled by any other ex- 
hibitor, and I hope that the people of Nebraska appreciate 
what was done for their state in its success, as shown by the 
number of awards received. I am, 
Yours very sincerely, 

J. W. Benham, 
President Benham Indiao Curio Company, New York City. 



I take pleasure in assuring you of my appreciation and 
hearty approval of the Nebraska exhibits at the Louisiana 
Purchase Exposition. I consider them severally and jointly 
excellent and a great credit to our state. The exhibits of our 
agricultural products compare most favorably with those of 
other states, while the special features of our section, such as 
the moving picture exhibition and the "mounted skin of the 
Chancellor" — as one newspaper reported it — attract universal 
attention. After spending two weeks inspecting the fair quite 
thoroughly, I left well satisfied that the Nebraska Commission 



TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 99 

had acted most wisely in devoting the funds at their command 
to a splendid exhibition of the products of our state, rather 
than to the erection and maintenance of a showy state build- 
ing for people to rest in — and nothing more, as some other 
states have done. 

It was plain that Messrs. Shedd and Walsh and their corps 
of assistants were "standing up for Nebraska'' most efficiently. 
Yours cordially, 

(Signed) Regent W. G. Whitmore, 
Agent for Nebraska, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

Valley, Neb. 



It seems to me that great care has been taken to reach the 
people with this exhibit, and much discrimination shown, as 
to what to leave out, and what to put in to the exhibit. The 
moving pictures, and the little theatre devoted to them are 
very popular and a delightful treat ; while the easy chairs and 
the ice water and all the other features for the comfort of the 
public, help to advertise our state. 
Respectfully, 

(Signed) George G. Wallace. 

Prest, Omaha Real Estate Exchange, 

Omaha, Neb. 



The displays of corn, and other farm products, together with 
the moving pictures, formed a most attractive feature of the 
great agricultural building, and it seemed to me that they 
drew more attention from people from all parts of the coun- 
try than most any other single exhibit. 

In my opinion the Nebraska Commission acted wisely in the 
use of the funds placed at its disposal in connection with the 
work at the fair, and the expenditure has undoubtedly accom- 
plished more for the good of the state than could have resulted 
from any other plan that might have been adopted. 
Yours truly, 

(Signed) G. W. Loom is, 

B. & M. R. R„ Omaha, Neb. 



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I am persuaded that the showing made by the Nebraska 
State Commission is not only a creditable one, but one that 
must be highly gratifying to all Nebraska people who visited 
the state exhibit. 

I observed with pleasure and state pride the crowds of 
visitors 'from all parts of the world who lingered about the 
Nebraska exhibit in the agricultural building, and heard the 
many expressions of surprise and wonder at the demonstration 
of the productive capacity of our state. Other states spent 
more money than did Nebraska in their efforts to "show off" 
their resources, but I doubt if any made a more lasting favor- 
able impression than our own. 

I desire to congratulate the Nebraska Commission on the 
splendid work accomplished. 
Very truly yours. 

(Signed) M. B. Reese, 

Ex-Judge, Supreme Court. 

Lincoln. Neb. 



Concerning the Nebraska exhibits at the World's fair would 
say, I was very much pleased with them. I thought the ex- 
hibit of the agricultural products was one of the best at the 
fair and that everything about it was properly cared for and 
attended to and that the exhibit was well calculated to make 
a favorable impression as to the resources and prosperity of 
this state. 

Very truly yours, 

(Signed) R. E. Moore, 

Prest., Security Investment Co., 

Lincoln, Neb. 



The Nebraska Commission to the exposition has done won- 
ders in advertising our state, and the thousands who . have 
seen and studied her exhibition, can only have words of praise 
for the wise selection of. and the skillful manner in which her 



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products were placed and displayed, and the energy, gentle 
manly kindness and desire of those in charge to always do 
everything to please the visitors present. 
Very respectfully yours, 

(Signed) J. K. Honeywell, 

Prest., Nebraska Dairymen's Association, 

Lincoln, Neb. 



I was a little ashamed of the fact that Nebraska had no 
building but this feeling gave way to one of surprise and 
pleasure when I found the Nebraska headquarters in the 
agricultural building. The commission is deserving of the 
greatest credit for the showing made with the limited funds 
they were allowed. The moving picture theatre was a brilliant 
idea and I believe did more to advertise Nebraska, her farms, 
industries and people than any number of state buildings 
could have done. The Nebraska booth was the most popular 
in the building, at least on the several occasions when I visited 
it and from all sides one heard only praise for the Nebraska 
exhibition. 

Yours truly, 

(Signed) Wm. Hay ward, 

Attorney and Counselor at Law, 

Nebraska City, Neb. 



After spending about two weeks at the great fair I can but 
repeat what many others have said in my hearing, that the 
daily exhibition of the agricultural resources of the state in 
the Nebraska booth was a great hit. It advertised the present 
prosperity and future possibilities of this state far better and 
to many more people than could have been done in the usual 
way of exhibiting. A more wise and economic expenditure of 
money could not have been made. 

The arrangements and quality of the education;!] exhibits 



102 REPORT OF NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

reflected credit upon the state and upon those who had it in 
charge. 

Take it all in all and considering the limited amount of 
money at your disposal, the commissioners deserve great 
praise. 

(Signed) Rev. F. S. Stein, 

Lincoln, Neb. 



I am convinced the commission made a wise selection when 
they adopted the plan they did to advertise Nebraska and 
Nebraska's resources. I think it a great success and money 
well spent. 

(Signed) Ex-Mayor J. C. Ralisback, 

Ashland, Neb. 



While some other exhibits were larger, the Nebraska ex 
hibit was to me like the main feature of a well written ad. 
After you have gone through all the offerings your mind goes 
back to that one particular thing and fastens itself upon it. 
And if you attend that sale you go because of that one partic 
ular thing. 

My opinion is that the majority of the people who visited 
the agricultural building will think Nebraska first. 

(Signed) C. H. Gregg. 

C. H. Gregg & Co.. 

Kearnev, Neb. 



My first thought was that we would seem very cheap, indeed, 
without a building on the fair grounds but I have really 
changed my mind in reference to this, as I believe our exhibit 
has been more talked about than any state exhibit I saw 
while I was at the fair. In the first place it is very artistically 
arranged and the moving picture machine seemed to be a great 
treat. 

I have been over the state quite a little since I went to St. 



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Louis and I have heard nothing but the highest praise for our 
Nebraska Commission. 

(Signed) Jno. T. Dorga^, 

Gen. Mgr., Whitebreast Coal & Lumber Co., 

Lincoln, Neb. 



When I looked over the exposition grounds and saw the 
extravagant and reckless waste of the people's money in many 
of the state buildings I concluded the legislature was wise in 
making the appropriation small for the exposition. Capable 
business men will do more for the success of such an exposi- 
tion than large appropriations. 

Governor Mickey was very fortunate in his selection of the 
Nebraska State Commission. Every product and resource of 
the state has been very fully and attractively placed before the 
visitor. 

In looking through the different departments of the state 
exhibit, the visitor is met by the officers in charge, with such 
a homelike and brotherly greeting, that they are tempted to 
stop a while and talk and examine the very full and artistic 
display in every department. 
Very respectfully, 

(Signed) Isaac Pollard, 

Prop., The Nehawka Fvuit Farm, 

Nehawka, Neb. 



I want to take this opportunity to express my appreciation 
of your display of Nebraska products and Nebraska indus- 
tries. It is the best thing in its line on the grounds and cer- 
tainly you have succeeded in advertising the state to very 
good advantage. 

(Signed) H. A. Wiggenhorn, 

Prest., Farmers & Merchants Bank, 

Ashland, Neb. 



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4?he commission should be congratulated on their success, 
also for their judgment in placing the exhibit where it is. and 
not trying to build a state building, with the amount of funds 
appropriated. 

(Signed) C. F. Ladd s 

Lincoln, Neb. 



I hesitated to go and see the Nebraska exhibit because I had 
been disgusted with the showing made by our state at previous 
expositions, and for the further reason that the small appro- 
priation at the disposal of our Commissioners this time offered 
no hope that we would be able to do any better at St. Louis. 
But I met some friends at St. Louis who had been much im- 
pressed with the Nebraska exhibit. They told me it was the 
best on the grounds. So I went out there. I not only took 
in the Nebraska showing but I compared it carefully with that 
of other states, and I tell you, sir, I was delighted. 

With the single exception of Missouri it is my judgment 
that Nebraska has the best agricultural exhibit at St. Louis 
of any state in the Union. And I found everybody else think- 
ing so too. People spent much time and made a careful in- 
spection of the Nebraska showing. Everything was exactly as 
calculated to produce an impression. The moving pictures 
are wonderfully popular and effective. They mean more than 
the spoken or written word. They show the eye what Ne- 
braska can do and is doing. 

And so I say that Nebraskans have every reason to feel 
proud and be abundantly satisfied with the work of their 
Commissioners at St. Louis. 

W. A. Paxton, 
In World-Herald. Julv 15, 1904. 



Excerpts from "Register of Visitors" 



EXCERPTS FROM "REGISTER OF VISITORS." 



"This exhibit ought to inculcate the same state pride in 
Nebraskans that is characteristic of the Kentuckians." — J. H. 
Kearns, Auburn. 

"You certainly have a great advertisement for Nebraska in 
the moving pictures." — J. A. Hunt, Hebron, 111. 

"Better than any other exhibit in the Agricultural Palace." 
— C. Crayden, St. Louis, Mo. 

"A most creditable exhibit and the most courteous set of 
people in charge on the grounds." — F. M. Henry, Jackson. 
Miss. 

"For the money spent, Nebraska has the finest exhibit ever 
seen." — W. Howard, Howard Co., Md. 

"I consider that Nebraska has the best display of any state." 
— T. H. Dryden, Pocamoke, Md. 

"We compliment you on your fine exhibit and commend the 
great thoughtfulness for the comfort of all and the great 
courtesy shown."— Mrs. S. H. Bagley, Oskaloosa, la. 

"The ice-water is fine." — A. E. Whittelsey, Meridan, Kan. 

"Display excellent and attention most courteous." — N. S. 
Clark, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

"Very fine exhibit."— D. H. Goodell, Westboro, Mass. 

"Courtesy shown very much appreciated."— Dr. and Mrs. R. 
E. Fiel, Oakland, Cal. 

"The moving pictures are an education." — James Shrewer. 
Baldo, Mo. 



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Newspaper and Magazine Comment 



NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE COMMENT. 



In the Nebraska agricultural exhibit there is a small hall 
fitted up with a biograph, which at all times entertains a large 
gathering in displaying the qualities of Nebraska soil. 

Chapter one of this biograph story opens on a prairie farm. 
You see the farmer come out of his comfortable home in the 
early morning, take his team from the stable and proceed to 
the field. The plow stands ready in the furrow. Two strong 
horses are attached, and off they go, the veins standing out on 
their necks, strength in their limbs, spirit in their movement. 
The rich black soil is turned up in a furrow that is irresistably 
convincing to the practised eye. There can be no question 
whatever about the quality of the soil. Its richness is before 
your eyes, and I do not believe that there was a single person 
in that room who did not wish he owned a far min such a land 
of natural Avealth. But I wish the biograph had also carried 
one into the sitting room of that farmhouse in the evening, 
and had shown around the lamp on the book table, the family 
circle, each member with a book or periodical, at the pianola 
the farmer himself, enjoying his new toy, which enables him 
to give his family the latest topical songs of the far-off great 
cities. — Cosmopolitan Magazine, September, .1904. 



•"What we need is something that moves/' said the secretary 
of a costly state display of agricultural products. This dis- 
play is virtually a history of his state and a catalogue of its 
resources. It was installed with no other purpose than to 
attract home-seekers. But the crowd passes it by, and the 
exhibits of forty other states equally complete and costly to 
hurry up to the least expensive state exhibit in the agricul- 
tural building. This is the exhibit of Nebraska. It has some- 
thing that moves — a moving picture entertainment showing 

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views of Nebraska's wheat fields, dairy herds, beet-sugar in- 
dustry, etc. The Nebraska state appropriation was only $35. 
000. No state building could be erected for this sum. But the 
appropriation fell into the hands of a commission that not only 
serves without salary, but has the advertising instinct. The 
moving picture entertainments are visited by fully 3,000 per- 
sons daily, and are the means of interesting desirable home- 
seekers in the state's free land and industries. In a little 
theatre seating something over 100 people a different set of 
views is shown every half-hour. When spectators come out of 
this theatre the advertising booklets of Nebraska have some 
meaning for them. Yet the whole show will cost not more 
than $5,000 during the fair, and thus the state that had least 
to spend is getting the best advertising results. — Printers' Ink. 
August 24. 1904. 

There is no Nebraska state building, but one need not leave 
the fair ignorant of the details of Nebraska life. Nebraska 
concentrates itself on agriculture. In the Palace of Mines it 
exploits its corn as gold-nuggets from its many kinds of prairie 
soils. A pleasant rest-room, in lieu of a state building occupies 
one part of the Nebraska section on the main aisle of the Palace 
of Agriculture. Once there, you are in Nebraska. For when 
you have looked at the stuffed form of the largest steer ever 
raised, and have understood why corn, running forty bushels 
to the acre, at forty cents a bushel, is being replaced in parts 
of Nebraska with sugar-beets, running ten and a half tons to 
the acre, at four and one-half dollars a ton, a bell rings, and 
you step inside a little theatre. A biograph begins to whir. 
Before you, on a screen, the scenes of Nebraska life fly by. The 
corn is planted and harvested. The sleek cattle jog by to mar- 
ket. A street parade passes in Lincoln. A county fair is 
reproduced. Meanwhile, a courteous lecturer explains the 
rapid progress of the state. — World's Work. August, 1904. 



Not an item has been omitted, and special departments of 
mining have been exploited as never before. Many foreign 



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countries have exhibits, but the most immediately striking dis- 
plays are made by the states. Even Iowa, which everybody 
thinks of as a prairie state, comes forward with products from 
its 300 coal mines and alluvial Nebraska makes an interesting 
exhibit the basis of which is a joke. Nebraska shows the soils 
in which are grown its corn crops. Above some of the tall 
^lass jars of prairie earth are two glass vessels filled with 
uilded and silvered ears of corn. The legend reads. "Gold and 
silver nuggets extracted from the agricultural soil of Nebraska 
to the amount of $200,000,000 a year. It is the surest of all 
mining, and the wealth is distributed among a greater number 
of people."— World's Work, August. 1904. 



•Through the courtesy of the Commission of Nebraska. M. 
B. Buisson was able to present, with stereopticon views, many 
addresses upon Tunis, in the very attractive and much pat- 
ronized auditorium of that state, which daily gave moving 
picture exhibitions of its magnificent industries and marvelous 
agricultural resources." — La Depeche Tunisienne. Algiers. 
December 20. 1901. 



Other states have exhausted their appropriations in building 
state buildings, but Nebraska has wisely spent her appropria- 
tion in exhibiting her natural resources. As a result Nebraska 
is getting more advertising than any other state exhibiting. — 
Editorial, Nebraska State Journal, Lincoln, Neb.. October 2. 
1904. 



The Nebraska people who have attended the Louisiana Pur- 
chase Exposition at St. Louis have come away well satisfied 
with the display made of the products of the state on exhibi- 
tion there. At no exposition aside from that at Omaha has 
the Antelope state attracted so much attention, nor merited so 
well the high compliments it has been given. When it was 
announced that Nebraska would have no separate building on 
the Avenues of States, some disappointment was felt, but this 



112 REPORT OF NEBRASKA STATE COMMISSION 

has been entirely changed to a feeling of general satisfaction, 
as the plan adopted by the state commission has so thoroughly 
brought to the front the resources and products of the state 
that no advantage could possibly arise from the existence of i 
state building. 

Another feature of the Nebraska exhibit which is unique and 
most successful in its application, is the theatre, where moving 
picture exhibitions are given, as many as ten presentations a 
day. Here farm scenes taken from life are shown. Every 
phase of farm work, the plowing, the planting, the cultivating, 
the harvesting and the threshing, all are projected from a 
kinetoscope, and make a great illustration of the actual con- 
ditions of out-door life in the state. The cattle industry is 
portrayed, and the railroads and other means of transporta- 
tion are given proper place. School scenes, the great Univers- 
ity of Nebraska football team in operation, and many other 
selected views, showing in detail the social life of the people, 
are exhibited. This show is accompanied by appropriate lec- 
tures, and the visitors to the Nebraska theatre go away with a 
most vivid and realistic picture of the state, its industries and 
advantages. Other lectures have been given in the theatre 
during the season, so popular has it become. — Omaha Bee. 
September 4, 1904. 



The Nebraska exhibit attracts more attention than any 
other state exhibit. The little theatre where moving pictures 
of Nebraska farmers plowing, seeding, and harvesting their 
crops are exhibited is always crowded and everywhere in the 
vicinity of "Nebraska'' pedestrains are asking their way to 
the place where they are welcome to sit down in rocking chairs, 
have free access to ice-water and where "Challenger" the 
champion steer of the world, is mounted. In the theatre the 
Nebraska wind waves and almost rustles the big fields of corn. 
the big horses pull the latest improved listers and hay rakes 
right up to the front row. 

Farmers from all over the globe go away with a vision of 
the widest and most fertile fields they ever saw and with a new 



TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION. 113 

conception of fertility and a favoring climate. This impres- 
sion is deepened by the sixty-one varieties of field corn, speci- 
mens of which they are allowed to handle. Other states have 
spent three dollars where we have spent one. But every dollar 
of Nebraska's appropriation has been wisely spent. There 
has been no doubling of useless functionaries, no squabbling 
for places, nor scrambling for the lion's share of the appro- 
priation. It was too small to attract the place-seekers or the 
boodlers. — Nebraska State Journal, August 28, 1904. 



The Japanese have shown much interest in the moving pic- 
ture plan of illustrations, and recently one of the commission- 
ers obtained much data to be sent to his country. It is pro- 
posed to prepare films of farming scenes in the Mikado's coun- 
try and send them back to St. Louis for display at the World's 
fair, in connection with many of the country's exhibits. — St. 
Louis Eepublic, August 12, 1904. 



The state of Nebraska has adopted a somewhat novel and 
unique way of bringing its resources to the attention of the 
public at the St. Louis Exposition. Instead of expending a 
large sum of money for a state building, it has erected a very 
handsome pavilion in the Palace of Agriculture. In this pa- 
vilion is a theatre with a capacity of some 250 people. Through- 
out the day at short intervals are given lectures upon Ne- 
braska's wonderful agricultural resources, illustrated by mov- 
ing ictures. The little theatre is crowded at every lecture, 
and Nebraska's strong points are brought before the people in 
a way they will remember. — Schenectady, N. Y., August 1, 
1904. 



The Nebraska State Commission of the St. Louis Exposition 
has issued a neat little book, showing the standing and re- 
sources of Nebraska in a nut-shell. The book is circulated 
widely by the Commission at St. Louis, and its benefit to the 
state is sure to have a manifold effect. 



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The Commission has supplemented it with the moving pic- 
tures of life on the farms and ranches of Nebraska. These are 
exhibited free in a cosy theatre in the Agricultural, Palace in 
connection with the headquarters of the Commission several 
times a day, and the theatre is always crowded. Here the 
Nebraskan can feel the utmost pride in the excellence of his 
great commonwealth, and these excellent features are zealously 
promoted and looked after by Secretary Shedd and his as- 
sistants.— Editorial, World-Herald, July 25, 1904. 



It is one of the most attractive and popular exhibits of the 
exposition. The moving picture theatre is one of the chief 
show attractions of the exposition and shows a living, breath- 
ing, active Nebraska. The commission has provided a vast 
amount of Nebraska literature that is being readily and eagerly 
sought for. It gives a concise and complete history of the 
resources of the state, and with the fine agricultural, dairy, 
horticultural and forage exhibits, which are all attractively 
displayed, Nebraska is receiving the best kind of an advertise- 
ment that is bound to bring substantial returns. July 4th 
over 3,500 people visited the Nebraska headquarters and all 
seemed interested in the state and its capabilities. — District 
Attorney Baxter, in Omaha Bee, July 13, 1904. 



It would hardly do for a Nebraskan to visit the fair without 
seeing the Nebraska exhibit at the agricultural building. It 
is to be regretted that the appropriation prevented the erec- 
tion of a Nebraska building, as was done by all the other 
states, yet our commission has made a splendid showing, not 
the least of which is the moving pictures of farm scenes, stock 
yards and Ak-Sar-Ben parades. — Omaha Evening News, Au- 
gust 8, 1904. 

Nebraska is not distinctively represented, excepting by the 
moving pictures. These are novel «md attractive. No other 



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state has anything like them. The fact that they are free to 
see, every half hour, is appreciated. That gives the Nebraska 
display the largest crowds at all times. 

There are several series of pictures, as have been well known 
in the state. I saw but one. This was views of the Pollard 
farm. The fruit pickers at work, the mowing and threshing 
machines in motion, the teams plowing in the cornfields, the 
views of the plains and the farm yards and all those things 
make genuinely realistic advertising — the best idea for the 
purpose in the entire building. — S. L. Geisthardt, in Lincoln 
Daily Star, September 23, 1904. 



Nebraska has no special building, but it has an interesting 
display, portraying the state's principal resources and activ- 
ities. While the display extends into all of the exposition 
palaces, the best exhibits are in the Palaces of Agriculture 
and Horticulture, and these two exhibits ought to be seen by 
every visitor. An exceptionally interesting display is the 
biograph demonstration in the Agricultural Palace, illustrat- 
ing life and industry in Nebraska. — Editorial, St. Louis Re- 
public, October 18, 1904. 



Nebraska Day at the fair has been celebrated with be- 
fitting credit to Nebraska. Nebraska, moreover, has always 
been one of the items of credit in the Louisiana purchase. — 
Omaha Bee, October 26, 1904. 



Nebraska's exhibit has one distinctive feature that has made 
it the center of attraction and drawn crowds day after day. 
They have no state building, the appropriation not justifying 
the expenditure, but a little theatre seating about 300 people, 
in which are displayed moving pictures of Nebraska farm life 
has proven an immense attraction, and the entertainments 
made more interesting by the short explanatory lecture have 
crowded the theatre every half hour of each day. — Kate Thyson 
Marr, in St. Louis Star, October 26, 1904. 



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Nebraska is just about the liveliest state on the grounds 
here. You buy the daily program and find that the biograph 
views of Nebraska life and farm scenes are given prominent 
mention and detailed description as one of the big attractions. 
The little theatre holds about one hundred and fifty besides 
affording some standing space and the crowd fills it every half 
hour. The total attendance is now about two thousand a day. 
Big clock dials are at all corners of the space announcing the 
next performance, and there are signs a plenty. The moving 
pictures are especially fine, showing plowing, harrowing, cul- 
tivating, threshing, cattle roundups, horse breaking (broncho 
busting, I suppose is better vernacular), rain storms (for the 
drouth talkers), and so on. Kecently added panoramas of the 
country from Lincoln out to Aurora and back by the cut-off 
and main line, about a thousand feet of films, will be a great 
card. There is such a variety that one can go again and again 
and see something new each time. 

Nebraskans and others are attracted to the space by con- 
veniences afforded. Ice-water, a scarce thing in the Agricul- 
tural Palace, is furnished as well as check room, reading room 
and other accommodations. Thus the whole twenty-acre tract 
that is roofed by Professor Taylor's building looks towards 
the Nebraska people as the right sort. As the list of names 
shows, the Nebraska people are finding the spot, and probably 
a good many more do so than if there were a state palace a 
mile and a half away. The exhibit space answers every pur- 
pose and concentrates Nebraskans better. 

The exhibit itself is fine though not nearly so much stuff 
is shown as many states have crowded in. The big steer, Chal- 
lenger, occupies the center of the exhibit side of the space and 
in the corners and on the open colonnade are all the principal 
products of the state. 

Just opposite, on block 58, close neighbors to the colossal 
cotton statue of King Cotton, the Nebraska corn pyramid now 
rears its gold-starred blue globe, with surmounting eagle 
still higher than the King's crown. — Ernest R. Holmes of Suc- 
cess Pub. Co., New York, in Nebraska State Journal, June 19, 
1904. 



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